Iron Maiden 747

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Immense!!!

Talk about expense - they also purchased a 747 simulator.

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!
 
and we wonder why ticket prices to concerts are so high!!! :)
 
Very very very cool. As I said on facebook, they're combining two of my favourite things, loud music and 747's :D

Although was I the only one whom noticed that the mock up image they did at the top looked like a 747-200?
 
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I think they could buff that out if they fly some older paint and panel repairers to Chile from Australia. Might need some gaffer tape as well.
 
Oh no! They might have to fly commercial or on a smaller charter aircraft!
 
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Personally I don't think they should repair it - just run on 3 engines - it has a great look for a rock and roll band!!
 
I can't actually work out from the news what actually happened??

Does anyone understand this? It just seems "suss" that such an event happened to occur for the rock band - someone wasn't doing their job!
 
That won't happen, the 747 moves the entire show around, the tour schedule is dependent on this being achievable.

I am aware that they have many tonnes of equipment which travels with them, as well as lots of staff / techies / roadies.

Given they have promised not to cancel shows, I suspect they will be forced to fly their cargo and people on other charter/commercial aircraft until the 747 can be repaired.??
 
I can't actually work out from the news what actually happened??

Does anyone understand this? It just seems "suss" that such an event happened to occur for the rock band - someone wasn't doing their job!
Sharon Osborne was seen driving the tug :)
 
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