Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden (and very funny guy), is flying planes for Iceland Express in his off-season. That’s too good to resist. So I’m going on his jet tonight from Newark to Reykjavik. Not a bad place to go for long weekend from US East Coast: links from Newark, Boston & Chicago; it’s a shorter flight than NY-LA; and with US$600 fares just a couple days before departure.
So I go, with Bruce Dickinson at the wheel. (Did I make it?)
A bit on Bruce.
Bruce flies a big jet:
Bruce rides a Soviet tank:
Why Bruce is funny:
Bruce fencing on MTV. He once finished 7th in the UK. Guy’s serious:
Oh yeah, Bruce singing. Here’s ‘Flight of Icarus’ from the glory days (which are still going on):
ROBERT REID is a travel writer (Lonely Planet, New York Times), travel expert (Today Show, CNN, GoogleTalks), travel videographer (his 76-Second Travel Show) and "travel artist" (staging the Manhattan Bridge's 100th birthday, training with Mounties). 
fly as high as the sun! up the irons!
It won’t work in actual fact, that’s exactly what I suppose.
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