Iron Maiden Singer Pilots Rangers’ Flight to Israel

By: Bob | February 12th, 2007

Your team has a big UEFA Cup tilt this week and you want to make sure that you have a smooth flight from Scotland to Israel. Who could you possibly call upon to pilot your 757 jet? How about the man who contributed to albums such as “Killers”, “No Prayer for the Dying” and “Dance of Death”?

There is nothing more reassuring than knowing that a heavy metal rocker has the controls of the airplane you are flying on. Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson did just that by captaining Rangers airplane as it flew to Israel.

Rangers manager Walter Smith told the club’s website: “I know their stuff quite well. I remember going to meet the band when they played in Edinburgh a few years ago. I would never have thought that Bruce would be flying our plane.”

Smith is not alone with that sentiment. I would never have guessed that any member of Iron Maiden would still be alive in 2007 to freebase heroin let alone fly an airplane full of high priced football players. This just proves that Iron Maiden will always be way cooler than Motorhead.

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• Chris |  February 12th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

  
  
  

  Wasn’t Bruce Dickinson once on the British fencing team?

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• Bob |  February 12th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

  
  
  

  Not sure about the fencing, but Wikipedia offers up why he was kicked out of boarding school:

  “Dickinson was later expelled from Oundle for urinating in the headmaster’s dinner. His co-urinator was rusticated; that is sent home for the rest of the term rather than being permanently excluded from the school, on the grounds that the contribution to the headmaster’s beans had been Dickinson’s idea.”

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• scott |  February 12th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

  
  
  

  From Wikipedia:

  When the recordings were finished in December 1987, Dickinson moved to Bonn, so that he could be close to the West Germany training centre for fencing. At the end of the ’80s Dickinson was at the peak of his fencing career, eventually ranked as high as 7th in Great Britain in the men’s foil discipline, while his club side, the Hemel Hempstead Fencing Club, represented Great Britain in the European Cup of 1989.

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• James |  May 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm

  
  
  

  Check your facts: Bruce Dickinson did not sing on the Iron Maiden album “Killers.” The singer was Paul Di’Anno.

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