Iron Maiden Unveils Ed Force One 2016

[Initech]

Bruce Dickinson comments,
“When the opportunity arose from my friends at Air Atlanta Icelandic to lease a 747 for The Book of Souls World Tour, of course we jumped at the chance, who wouldn’t? The greatest benefit of travelling in a 747 is that because of its colossal size and freight capacity we can carry our stage production and all our stage equipment and desks in the cargo hold without having to make any of the immense structural modifications needed to do this on the previous 757, the extent of which fans will have noted on the Flight 666 DVD. Although in reality we cannot carry much more gear the savings in complexity, time and cost make using the 747 even more practical. All we will need to do is “paint” it and move a few seats around, with the added advantage that there is much more room for band and crew – our Krew can almost get a row of seats each to catch up on sleep on the flights! Furthermore, it is marginally faster 0.85 MACH and the range of around 7000NM (13,000 km) is much greater which means we will not have to make the refuelling stops we needed to with the 757.

“However, even though we have worked out the logistics of taking a plane of that immense size out on tour, I still have to learn to fly it before we can go anywhere! So, I’m currently doing my training to qualify as a pilot and Captain on a Boeing 747. I’m doing this at Cardiff Aviation, my aircraft maintenance facility in Wales, where we recently took possession of a rather splendid 747 simulator which I can’t wait to get practising on!

“We’re all really excited at the thought of bringing our brand new tour to fans who have never seen us play live before, and of course re-visiting all our old friends again too. You can rest assured we are all working hard to put together a spectacular show for our fans.”

http://www.ironmaiden.com/iron-maiden-and-the-book-of-souls-go-jumbo-on-massive-2016-world-tour.html

[arcane1]

1. Sweet!!! I love the "Flight 666" documentary.

Iron Maiden could bring about world peace, for every nation has Maiden fans!

[Initech]

2. Yeah that is still pretty mind blowing no matter how many times I see it!

[sharp_stick]

3. God I wish I could do that

Imagine the thrill of learning and then actually flying a 747?

I've always been a little envious of Bruce Dickenson but it's really in overdrive now...I may actually be turning green.

[Initech]

4. *AND* playing a world tour for a renowned heavy metal band on top of that!

Some people can do everything can't they?

[Frank Cannon]

5. Hey, like you, Bruce puts his pants on one leg at a time.

The only difference is, when he puts his pants on, he makes gold records.

[jmowreader]

6. I don't know if you've seen this, but...

Learn to load an airplane from Bruce!