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Virgin InFlight WiFi Liveblog

Virgin America debuts its inflight GoGo WiFi today, and we are so excited... almost as excited as Tay Zonday. Join us as we liveblog our way through its debut flight.

4:51PM PDT We tell our seat buddy that we want to stay on the Internet even after the official cut-off. Unfortunately, because we've signed up for a particular session, they'll be able to tell that we're on and can come over and nudge us. Shoot. So this is goodbye till we're on the ground and can give you a full report. Well, we'll go ahead and sip some more champagne.

By the way -- we are flying somewhere, specifically, Great Falls, Idaho. We're not stopping there, just making a big loop. Oops! Tim Maxwell just called us "young lady" and told us to log off. Later!

4:47PM PDT Announcement: "The WiFi trial has come to an end." The crew from Gadget Gossip is shooting directly behind us. Which makes us wonder... How much are people actually writing on this plane? There are so many people in the aisles we're starting to feel a little left out with our computers.

4:41PM PDT SF comedy troupe SPF7 is filming a skit on how to join the Mile-High Club. In the words of someone we have sworn never to mention again, thanks but no thanks!

4:38 PM PDT Overheard: "If you think American is slow, you haven't met slow yet."

Predict widespread mutiny when Virgin America attempts to get us all to log off so they can stream to YouTube Live on the ground. Particularly from the iPhone users!

4:27PM PDT Apparently some people are having problems getting online... not us! Smooth sailing all the way. Suzanne from YouTube borrowed our computer to check out the YouTubeLive site to see Brandon Hardesty, who's making announcements right now... for us to go to YouTube and look at his movie reenactments. Woo hoo! Feeling delightfully overstimulated thanks to the free Karma Champagne and of course the sweet, sweet Internet. But the question is, was that Richard Blakeley I saw in front of me and when is he going to do something crazy?

4:13PM PDT: We're online... on the plane! The buzz in the air was palpable as VX11 took off from San Francisco International Airport and a plane full of Internet junkies waited for this moment. We watched a promo reel from YouTubers like LisaNova, William Sledd and SF Parkour using Virgin America planes as a backdrop during takeoff, and now everyone's either online or trying to get there.

Our seat buddy: Tim Maxwell, Chief Marketing Officer for Aircell which is sittin' pretty with either deals or talks in the works with most major American airlines to provide WiFi. (American has their GoGo service through them as well.)

Famous people we've seen so far: iJustine (she is so wee!). We hear Keith Powell and Katrina Bowden of "30 Rock" are on the flight but have yet to catch a glimpse.

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