You may remember our more recent coverage of Google extending it’s 4-1-1 service to it’s cloud.  At the time, we here at TechFaux were a twitter over how we might see the thing first hand.  Well, today we learned that we can finally stop trying to build our own jet engine, because Virgin Airlines and Google announced that they have built one for us, and TF has been invited to take a test flight!

Before hopping on a Virgin Airship and rocketing toward the cloud, I sat down across a laptop from Walter S. Mossberg, my Personal Technology Columnist, and a close friend, who warned me that since The Cloud was such a powerful atmosphere to exist in, where our normal functions can be completed much more rapidly, I could expect to age at a much faster rate. Expected side effects of this aging could include balding, advanced PC use, irrelevant blogging, a growing feeling of self importance, and a job as a Personal Technology Columnist.

Luckily for me, Virgin has installed a series of satellites that shoot Facebook-blocking WiFi to slow the effects of this process (it also blocks Scobble’s friendfeed).

Update: TF has received this stunning image of the first flight to The Cloud-

Life moves pretty fast on the web.  Between job insecurity, constant governmental antitrust probing, and the constant calls from Mr. Google himself that your job needed to be completed yesterday, what’s a poor cloud-dwelling coder to do when hunger strikes?

Google has listened to the satellite transmissions from their high-altitude programmers and, in tune with their well-known “Don’t be evil” mantra, have expanded the range of their cellular and satellite services for GOOG-411 to offer both phone reception and service as well as pizza delivery to their employees who are currently deployed 30,000 feet into the atmosphere working on maintaining Google App Engine’s new computing cloud.

When asked about the new delivery service, a Google programmer who spoke on the condition of anonymity told TechFaux:

“Don’t get me wrong.  I’m glad they’re trying to help out and everything, but what we really need up here are more reliable desks, chairs, oxygen masks, and blankets.  Our hardware is now malfunctioning at a much higher rate than on land due to the water molecules in the atmosphere which now surround us…Also, I’d love for my wife and children to come visit me.  It gets very lonely in the cloud at night.”

We approached Google last night asking about their monetization strategy for the GOOG-411 extension and if the service will include delivery to passengers traveling on any major airlines, but the company has not responded.

We will update this post as more news emerges.