Following Hurricane Irene, one of the first flights to leave New York will be piloted by the Iron Maiden front man, Bruce Dickinson. He will be flying passengers from New York to Reykjavik, in Iceland, on budget airline, Iceland Express.
Dickinson holds an airline transport pilot's license and, when not singing for one of the most popular bands of all time, works for Astraeus Airlines. He has previously flown Rangers F.C. and Liverpool F.C. to European away games, as well as saving hundreds of stranded people during the Israel/Hezbollah conflicts and the collapse of XL Airways. In 2008, he chartered an aeroplane from Astraeus to be used by Iron Maiden to fly around the world for their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour. The plane was dubbed "Ed Force One" and a DVD was made charting the tour.
Having just finished Iron Maiden's massive "Final Frontier" tour, Dickinson clearly isn't one to take a break. He says that Maiden will be releasing "at least one more" album before they retire and, in the foreseeable future at least, there appears to be no chance of Maiden slowing up.
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Interesting information here, didn't know about his work in the israel/hezbolla conflicts!
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