The heavy metal band Iron Maiden is known for its share of aviation-themed songs such as Aces High, Empire Of The Clouds and Death or Glory, as well as having flown around the world on a Boeing 747 dubbed"Ed Force One" while on tour - with its frontman Bruce Dickinson in the captain's chair.
"One of the jobs that we had at the airline I worked for was having an aeroplane permanently allocated to the military to go and take people places—not to wars, but to bases. And sometimes we flew people back,” he said. Dickinson noted that the soldiers he and his crew were flying back were cheerful despite having lost people in the course of their duties.
"And we were looking out, and all really close to the runway were families, kids, all the families and wives and everybody of all the soldiers, and they were all 'You're my hero, daddy' and everything else.
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