Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden vocalist), is taken for a demo ride of the A320 for a Discovery Channel documentary. Bruce shows off the computerized FLCS of the aircraft and how these protect the aircraft from control errors.
bruce is real legend. a rock star who never destroyed himself with drugs or alcohol. he is very clever and talented person. a man like him is born at every 500 years. up the irons, bruce for life!!!
Doing the research for this show was one of my first jobs in TV. This clip brings back good memories. Bruce is the nicest, easiest guy in the world to work with. You'd never guess he was a mega star.
Met him at the Crobar in London where he used to frequent with a couple of the other Maiden guys. Absolute diamond of a bloke. Lead singer of one of the greatest bands in history, a qualified airline pilot, international standard fencer, and STILL a lovely human. There's a lot of 'celebs' these days with less than 0.5% of that talent and achievement that could learn a hell of a lot from his example.
Dickinson is not only one of the greatest singers of all times, he's very intelligent, eloquent and very skillful in many many things!!! We love him, don't we!!! :)))
sparrowlt yeah he is.Bruce is flying the band in a 747 around the world on their latest tour.I will be seeing Maiden on monday.I don't know if you are a Maiden fan but that is what is happening
Yes, believe or not, that is true:) Cheers... PS. I know none other than him, from any bands in the world,who does this. Prove me wrong but anyway, pretty cool this is!
Who wouldn't love to hear this announcement on a commercial jet, "Scream For Me! This is your Captain, Bruce Dickinson!" At that point, every Iron Maiden fan would go absolutely crazy! Best flight ever!
Bruce really is an exceptional man. I remember when he first got his pilot's licence many years ago. They were interviewing him and asked how on earth he could manage all of it... touring, composing, fencing (he was one of the best in the UK), publishing books, and flying. Anyway he was trained by B. Airlines and now employed with Astraeus. You may never fly with him but thats just you being biased. He is 100% qualified... they even trusted him to fly Rangers FC apparently.
Being a famous metal frontman and able to pilot a jumbo jet is has got to be the coolest combination of anything i can think of! Bruce is a very cool guy!
I wonder if the irons have played a gig on the playing where bruce sings over the PA system, would be pretty metal playing a gig in a flying chunk of 'metal'.
Bruce Dickinson is a pilot who had modest success singing on the album "Balls to DiAnno" (clearly issued with the intention to cash in on fans of Iron Maiden). He is better known as a temporary guest singer for Iron Maiden. His second singing term is so far (November 2023) not finished.
rough runways are no match for the king air, its got an awesome power to weight ratio short take offs and landings for its weight cruises in the flight levels at a decent speed and has redundancies for every system, its truly an awesome aircraft
What a great video! Nice sence of humor, best rock voice ever en the older he gets, the better he looks ;o) Bruce you're the best! Whish you a lot of save flights in the future ;)
Wow that's amazing to know, I love the airbus cockpits especially the a320. Did it take you long to get used to it though? Nice meeting you by the way........
@BringEllisTheHoriZon The A320 was the first productional Fly-by-wire Airbus, but an A300 was used as the FBW testbed. The Beluga is a modified A300 without FBW.
I think Bruce sums it up perfectly "it's a bit like flying a computer game." Most Boeing-based pilots (after a few beers) will have a more colorful words to describe the A380's overrides..! The tray table is by far the highlight.
tell me one reason to dislike this it's amazing, watch their Somewhere In Time Tour! Bruce flies their whole crew around the world AND sings every second day
The system is supposed to respond by pitching itself down, even at low altitude. The A320 that crashed at the airshow did exactly as Airbus intended to prevent a stall. yes, it still crashed, but due to the fact that the stall was in a recovery state, the decent rate wasn't as severe and hence why most survived the crash. AF 447 should have done the same. sure, the speed was unknown, but it recognised a stall and altitude, thus should have pitched down, even with pilot input. That's the point.
Humans should always have the last say over machines. As of mid 2019 Boeing had to 737 Max 8 accidents caused by a very bad implementation of a subsystem called MCAS that dares to nose down the plane based on a single (possibly faulty) sensor aggressively under "manual" flight. Pilots startled by the malfunction could not act timely to save the planes and the lifes of Indonesian Lion Air JT610 and Ethiopian ET302. Who would imagine Boeing of all plane makers would be involved in accidents where pilots had difficulty overriding computers... There was a way out with the "Runaway stabilizer" memory item, but pilots are not used to it nowadays, and a quick enough reaction time can't be taken as granted. IMO AF447 and ET302 show the limits of automation, and the need to prepare pilots to an eventual handover of controls in a clumsy situation. Maybe the're rare events, but always challenging ones.
It's amazing that Airbus came up with the Fly by Wire mechanism. To SmallDude55, Boeing has their own plane with the flybywire mechanism in the B777 series. So therefore Boeing don't suck, they are beautiful aircraft as for the Airbus, both amazing aircraft manufacturers.
The gear is always deployed when performing crazy test flights because it creates something called landing gear wake during landing and want to make sure that even the most extreme maneuvers, it doesn't affect the flight characteristics one bit.
