Iron Maiden visited Boeing’s Paine Field yesterday before Tacoma concert
Apr 12, 2016, 8:55 AM | Updated: 8:57 am
Iron Maiden’s so-called Ed Force One landed in the Puget Sound region.
The rock stars’ Boeing 747 landed at Boeing Paine Field in Everett a few hours ahead of their concert at the Tacoma Dome on Monday night. It flew in from Vancouver.
#EdForceOne departs Vancouver 1300 arrives Paine Field (PAE) 1350
'Coming Home' to @BoeingAirplanes !
— Iron Maiden (@IronMaiden) April 11, 2016
Vocalist Bruce Dickinson captains the jumbo jet that will travel to seven continents for “The Book of Souls World Tour,” according to the band’s website.
“When the opportunity arose from my friends at Air Atlanta Icelandic to lease a 747 for The Book of Souls World Tour, of course we jumped at the chance, who wouldn’t?” Dickinson said in part on the website.
“The greatest benefit of traveling in a 747 is that because of its colossal size and freight capacity we can carry our stage production and all our stage equipment and desks in the cargo hold without having to make any of the immense structural modifications needed to do this on the previous 757.”
Dickinson wrote that he had to train before the tour in order to qualify as a pilot and captain on the plane.
The band posted this infographic explaining the technicalities on Ed Force One.
