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.

 

[mbox32]

Hummm... I took Bob Hoover and his wife to ATW from MSP for Oshkosh, but at least the F.O. knew who he was. He had his straw hat on and was very cool. He took the time to chat with us, and signed our logbooks!
John Kerry-not friendly
Jim Belushi
Kiss
Barry Sanders-in coach
The Big Show-VERY Big dude
Miss America-2001 I think
Jim Hannah

 

[AMRCostUnit]

Once upon a time when I was a DC-10 FE in LAX (c.92-93)...

OJ...before he was "famous"
Love Boat Captain (tool)
Lou Gosset Jr (nice)
Willie Mays (no autographs)
Hank Aaron (no one dared ask)
Rosanne Barr (CA almost threw her off)
Axel Rose (quiet)
Arnie Becker from LA Law (nice)
Rachel Hunter (TALL)
Sarah Jessica Parker (very nice...before Sex in City. F/O sent her a note and asked her to marry him. She sent back a note explaining why she couldn't.)
Julia Roberts (nice)
Tom Hanks
Lavar Burton (Kunte Kinte and Gordi LaForge)
Kathy Najimi
Randy Travis
Jesse Jackson all the time (lots of ATL-LGA currently..seems ok)
George Will (Newsweek? DCA-LAX)

and...the best was...

Heather Locklear, twice, LAX-JFK then back the next week. Talked to her on the way out and she REMEMBERD me on the way back!!! My life is complete!! VERY nice and looks as good in person on TV!!! Sambora is an idiot!!

Unit

 

[Father Jack]

Sat next to Terry Bradhaw in First once. About 20 people came up an asked for his autogragh. He was super nice to all of them, big smile and a "nice to meet you."
Flew Yaeger to DFW, I have his autogragh stuck on the fridge. He was cool.
Larry Gatlin charmed the pax and asked me if I wanted his auotgragh. I didn't know who he was.
The guy from Iron Maiden is now a 737 FO at British Midland. Jimmy Buffet has a reputation as a major league tool.
Oh, and my ex-girlfriend was at an FBO once and a Lear pulls up and out steps The Rolling Stones. She said they talked to everyone at the place.

Jack

 

[LJDRVR]

Lee Greenwood

Alec Baldwin (EWR-BUF, my first flight as Captain at my present employer)

Max Weinberg

Terry Bradshaw (Same aging adolescent jock you see on TV)

Faith Ford (Very Pretty)

Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam (Very nice folks, didn't complain at all when we had to stash them in the lounge at Million Air TEB for an hour while we ran the Lear 35's engine to get down to the weight limit for the reduced runway NOTAM thanks to my stupid FO. Are you reading this Scott? Taking initiative is a good thing, but only when you don't screw it up! There's a reason the Captain does the fuel order! )

"Uncle" Ted Nugent (Genuinely great guy)

the Gallo kids (wine)

Herb Kelleher (Best passenger ever!)

Mattress Mac (Worst passenger ever!)

John O'Quinn (Won't state my opinion as I don't want FI to get sued)

My Dad

 

[coogebeachhotel]

Cate Blanchet(YUL)
Jenna Jammeson(DFW)
Paltrow(SAV)

 

[freeflyer14]

Don King, awesome hair!

Stan "the man" Musial

Some guy from "Survivor", fa knew who he was, we didn't

 

[PDH]

Off the subject a little, but I once threw bags for Pearl Jam onto a BAC 111 during my fueling days. I saw Eddie hand the FO "several hundred" dollars and told him to give it to the "helpers" for throwing a truck load of bags and equipment. When we're done the FO winks, gives us 5 bucks and said "wish I could give you more." Jerk!!

 

[Napoleon TNT]

John Kerry-not friendly

John Kerry-Not nice?! WHAT!?!?

Did you say, "Hey John, Why the LONG FACE?"


In other news-

Sharon Stone-on the way to a political campaign stop for, as luck has it, John Kerry. I found it funny that she is all about the environment and saving animals, and clean air. Was dropped off at the airport in a Lincoln Navigator, and went out to the chartered G-II with the old Rolls engines. Big cloud of black soot as it flew out of the area.

Bob Dole stopped in one day. Nice guy. Make sure you shake with your left hand.

 

[Av8rPHX]

William H. Macy - PHX-BUR
Bruce from the Beach Boys (the short one, he came up and said hi and introduced himself) PHX-SBA

 

[Longhorn]

John Mayer from RDU to JFK last week. Actually stopped to say hello and that he enjoys flying on us. Really cool guy.