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Monday, 01 September 2008 18:42 |
 The following story is courtesy of Peterboroughtoday.co.uk:
RAF heroes returning to Wittering after an arduous seven months in
Afghanistan deserved the rock star treatment. And from the moment the
engines on the chartered plane which brought them home yesterday
(Sunday, 31 August) fired up, they got it.
Because at the controls of the Astraeus aircraft was Bruce Dickinson,
the singer with heavy metal band IRON MAIDEN, who leads a double life
as a captain with the British airline.
As the sun-bronzed members of 3 Squadron RAF Regiment were reunited
with their families and friends after the plane had touched down on the
Wittering runway, some were agog at the fame of the flier who had
piloted them from Cyprus following a stopover on the island.
Squadron Leader "Albert" Finney, the senior air traffic control officer at RAF Wittering, had a surprise brush with Bruce.
He said: "I wanted to speak to the captain because we are not used
to handling such large aircraft, and I needed to check he was happy
with the taxi-plan. The captain happened to be Bruce Dickinson.
"I knew he flew for Astraeus, but what were the chances of him
being the pilot? He was as proud as punch at flying the lads and wanted
to tell me all about his Boeing 757."
Read more here.
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