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Bruce Dickinson’s Cyber-Flight
According to This Is Nottingham.co.uk, Bruce Dickinson is preparing to embark on a marathon non-stop “cyber flight” around the world in seven days with a group of flight simulator enthusiasts.
Dickinson, who holds an airline pilot’s licence, will be part of a 17-strong British flight team on a virtual round-the-globe adventure called Simfest. Departing from a virtual Sydney International Airport in Australia on Sunday November 4, the journey will take the team seven days and seven nights.
Simfest is part of World-Flight, an annual event in which teams from around the world use home-built flight simulators to fly around the world and raise money for a chosen charity. This year the British cyber pilot team is supporting Cancer Research UK. Gary Oliver and Mark Hastings custom-built their own Boeing 777 flight simulator in Gary’s garage, and are masterminding the British effort, and hope to raise £5,000 for the charity.
The pilots will fly under as many real-world rules and regulations as possible and will be guided by teams of virtual air traffic controllers using VATSIM, the free global virtual air traffic controller network.
Supporters of the mission can follow the flights on web cams and online tracking.
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Hi there,
I was wondering if Bruce Dickinson would be interested to be part of my music project. Needless to say that it is not for free.
I am a 41 guitarist from Iran. I have a progressive metal band called Ornamento del Mundo. The image is “Peace, Tolerance and Coexistence”. The site will be up in summer when the 1st album will be out.
The first album is a project called “Project Cordoba Now”. Cordoba was the symbol of religious and political tolerance in the Spanish history. “Cordoba Now” means we should have that tolerance now.
For one of my songs I would like to have Bruce’s great voice if he gives me the honor. The song is about Tony Blair’s confession in a conf. booth in a Catholic Church. He confesses about how he betrayed the votes of the British and how he contributed to the destruction of Iraq.
We are by no means religious or politically radical. In the same way, the first song “I am Water” criticizes the other end of the political spectrum and promotes democracy in the Middle East.
I am myself a political analyst and graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
I have been a fan of Maiden, and Bruce since his Samson days.
Looking forward to hearing from Bruce himself.
Amirali