Iron Maiden singer sets up aircraft firm

[Berlin Expat]

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is hoping that money can be made from repairing heavy metal as well as performing it, after launching an aircraft maintenance business.

Dickinson, one of rock's renaissance men – a commercial airline pilot, enthusiastic fencer and published novelist – has established a company that will repair and overhaul aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767. Cardiff Aviation Ltd will be based in an enterprise zone in the Vale of Glamorgan and Dickinson said the business had ambitious growth targets.

Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/01/iron-maiden-bruce-dickinson-aircraft?INTCMP=SRCH

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Bruce Dickinson proves yet again how awesome he is. It's nice to see a celebrity actually do something useful, like try to create jobs in an area that frankly needs it. Oh yeah, and the British get kick-ass guys like Dickinson, while we in America are stuck with Ted "Poopy Pants" Nugent.

I know there's Iron Maiden fans on here, so check out the story! Up the Irons!

[frylock]

1. up the irons!

yeh, Bruce is just awesome. check out Flight 666 if you haven't seen it already.

[Berlin Expat]

2. Oh, I've seen it

plenty of times. I have it on DVD. Absolutely great film; one of the best concert/behind the scenes films I've ever seen.

[Berlin Expat]

3. Bruce Dickinson is also

considered a living example of a polymath : http://moreintelligentlife.com/node/2115

This puts him in such distinguished company as Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Archimedes, Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Robeson, Desmond Morris, and Isaac Asimov.

Not bad company to keep I'd say.

[Lawlbringer]

4. He's also a huge proponent

of Cowbell.

[Berlin Expat]

5. LOL!!!