Bruce Dickinson flies high
The Associated Press is reporting:
Bruce Dickinson likes to fly some heavy metal - about 240,000 pounds (109,000 kilograms) of it - when he's not performing as IRON MAIDEN's frontman.
On the band's 2008-9 Somewhere Back In Time World Tour - showcased on the new DVD Flight 666 which was voted Best Music Documentary at this year's South-by-Southwest Festival - Dickinson pulled double duty as lead singer and the chief pilot on the band's customized Boeing 757.
He'd wear his Astraeus Airlines uniform - white shirt with epaulets and pressed trousers - when flying between tour stops. Then, he'd leap around the stage in outlandish costumes - donning a red 19th-century British army tunic while singing 'The Trooper' or a feathered mask for 'Powerslave'.
After the shows, as the band's "designated driver," he had to refrain from late-night carousing, turning in early and avoiding any drinking in order to meet aviation industry regulations for mandatory rest periods and zero blood-alcohol content...