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Friday, May 05, 2006

Über den Wolken ...

There have been some adventurous purchases made on eBay, but a Chinese man who has bought a MiG fighter takes the cake.

Zhang Cheng put in the winning bid of $24,730 but is now unsure about how to get the still operational jet into China - or if it will be allowed. "I like to collect valuable items," said the hopeful Zhang. "I have the buying power and my company has an empty space where I can display the plane," he told the Beijing News.

A Chinese company recently went bankrupt after it unsuccessfully tried to run the retired Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk as a floating amusement park in Shenzhen.

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