Gotta Give it up for Bruce Dickinson!
 

Rocker Bruce to the rescue
21/07/06


HEAVY metal star Bruce Dickinson was returning to Britain last night after airlifting 200 Beirut evacuees to safety.

The Iron Maiden singer, also a professional pilot, flew a Boeing 757 to Cyprus, where the Brits had fled to escape the violence.

After touching down at RAF Akrotiri on the Med island, Bruce waited for the fully-boarded plane to be re-fuelled before being given clearance to fly back to Gatwick.

The mercy mission was the idea of the rocker, whose Iron Maiden hits include Run To The Hills and Sanctuary.

Dad-of-three Bruce, 47, is a first officer with London-based charter airline Astraeus.

A colleague said: "He was only too keen to get involved and help. He has a strong interest in the welfare of people caught up in international conflicts and cares about what is going on."

The first Brits to flee war-torn Lebanon, mostly women and children, had landed at Gatwick airport yesterday looking exhausted but relieved.

By yesterday more than 1,000 Brit nationals and dual nationals had been ferried to safety in Cyprus by Royal Navy ships in the biggest war zone evacuation since Dunkirk in the Second World War.

I thought this was about that guy who's on antique shows. Cheap as chips!

i bet they use it in an iron maiden video.

It's great to see aging rock gods turning into real heroes these days though. Gene Simmons is just a big pansy.

i'm tellin' ya, he's aged well.
ugly then:




cute now:

god save.

the dude is awesome, the prove's here.

It seems like a very admirable act on his part, for sure, until you find out that Cyprus is a very violent place as well. There is a lot of violent animosity between Cyprus' Muslim population and the Orthodox Christian population. So really, we are just evacuating people from one very dangerous realigious-based war zone to a slightly less religious-based war zone. Smoothe move, Einstein's.

good on him

All this and a literary giant too!!!

 

he's a trooper.

I wonder if he has a picture of the Iron Maiden monster (Eddie?) painted on the tail fin of his plane?

It's the same guy.

Cyprus is hardly a war zone. Theres no fighting between them right now.

Erm.. Cyprus is being used as a staging post, not a final destination.

And where on earth did you get the idea that Cyprus is a dangerous violent place anyway? The most dangerous faction on Cyprus is drunken Brits, both tourists and squaddies.