Anybody Famous?

[lindsaya99]

Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House (very nice gentleman) DCA-ORF
Jerry Stiller, LGA-ACK
Jerod, the Subway Guy CVG-?
Mark Curry from "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" He and his brother were really cool guys.

 

[DOVPILOT]

Joan Jet and the "new" Black Hearts, one dude had a spiked mohawk and all the piercings to go with it!!! Just nasty

 

[OPECJet]

Wayne Newton
Kelly Osbourne
Jon Voight
Deion Warwick
a couple of others here and there.

 

[ATRCAPT]

Had Huey Lewis on board from RNO to PDX. On my way out I saw him standing at baggage claim so I stoppped to say "hi". Super cool guy.

 

[skiandsurf]

Farrah Fawcett.......real bitch.
MC Hammer.........He really is broke. Sat in coach.
Howie Long.
John Walsh.
Nancy Kerrigan.
The Fat Judd daughter.

On one flight there were 4, all traveling seperate.
....James Brown (Cleveland Browns)
....JB ( from Fox Football.....now CBS)
....Sonny Bono (this is 2 weeks before he died)
....Jesse Jackson


Keith Urban.
Annika Sorenstrom.
John Kerry.
Dwayne Wade.
Warren Beatty.
Annette Benning.

And my favorite.......Tommy Lasorda. Very nice guy.

 

[Pool is Cool]

Buzz Aldrin(sp) from SunValley to Oakland
Ray Charles from Victoria to Seattle, gave the crew tickets to his concert that night at the Paramount theater.
Danny Glover, Seattle to Portland, super nice guy, shook my hand and chatted for a while.
Josh Blue(winner of last comic standing '06) Denver to Omaha took picture with me.
Rowdy Roddy Piper (Old pro wrestler) Seattle to Portland.
Drummer from Guns N Roses, didn't get his name.

 

[ERfly]

Fabio was on my Deadhead from CLE to EWR the other night. Rode in coach and sat across the aisle from me. Slept the whole time.

 

[Jack Mehoff]

As a CFI:

Jimmy Buffett - Passed through the lobby of MillionAir LUK and said hi.
Jeff Foxworthy - Stuffing his face with popcorn in MillionAir LUK lunchroom.

As a ramp rat:

Seattle Mariners
Chicago Bulls (post Mike and Scottie)
Bill Cowher (Pittsburg Steelers head coach)
The Offspring (gave them a tray of sandwiches and chatted very briefly)
Eric Bischoff (President of WCW wrestling)
Kanyon (WCW wrestler, was with Bischoff)
Doug Dillinger (WCW head of security)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (DANG is he short!)
John Travolta (gassed up his jet)
Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of Iron Maiden, hung out with him for a couple hours and had some hotdogs)

As a freight dawg:

Met a guy in the FBO at CLE, he was one of the Cleveland Indians who had just gotten traded to another team that day and was flying out to play in a game the next day. I can't remember his name, but I do remember that he was all over the news the next day for getting into a fight during the game.

You meet Bruce Dickinson!!! Did he ask for more cowbell??

 

[Pool is Cool]

Bruce Dickinson(of Iron Maiden) is a commercial airline pilot in Europe now.

 

[njcapt]

I flew a charter for Jesse Jackson back when he was running for president in 1988. I never spoke to him, but his posse pretty much ripped all the catering off the KingAir. Cans of pop, all the grapes from the fruit basket, 16 hour old sweet rolls. It was like watching wolves at a kill.

I got to talk to Pat Simmons (guitar dude from the Doobie Brothers) on the hotel van from the Hilton in LAX to the airport a couple of years ago. Was able to tell him I saw them at least five times when I was in high school, and how much Michael McDonald f@#$ed them up. He laughed, sort of agreed, but commented on how much money they made during those years.

My best brush with (sort of) greatness was meeting Bob Eubanks from the Newlywed Game. He was going to his wife's high school reunion in Nebraska (relucantly) and due to a ridiculous maintenance delay in LGA on my airplane, he got to blow it off - he thanked me as he got off the airplane. I, however, was mortified that a freaking fueling miscalculation turned into a two and a half hour delay thanks to Delta contract maintenance.