Celebrities in FBOs

[WillowRunVortex]

Other celebrities I have flown:

Osama Bin Laden: Very nervous. Kept looking out the window (that line guy looks like Bush! Get going! Now! Now, Dammit, you infidel dog pilots!).
Jimmy Hoffa: Looked very bony and smelled bad.
Michael Moore: Blamed Bush for ground stop @ TEB. Ate all the stock and crew meals. Never stopped farting during 5 hour leg to SMO.
Howard Dean: scared the sh*t out of pilots by yelling "We're going to Burlington! YEEEEAAAHHHH! after takeoff from IAD.
Renee Zellweger: Struck up a conversation with my co-pilot, married him, and then filed for annullment through Flitephone during TEB-MVY leg.
John Kerry: kept changing destination in-flight (take me to Sun Valley! No, make that Boston! Wait a minute! I want to go to Las Vegas! I won the Silver Star, you know! The Horror! The Hhhorror! as he lay on the divan with a wet towel on his head)
Martha Stewart: kept insisting on trading "cigarettes and tits" for a bag of peanuts and a tea bag (while subtly showing us a shank made from the lav T-handle hidden in her bra).
Karl Rove: openly toyed with the idea of revealing the names of all the "Flaming Douchebags" posting on The Hangar to the registered members at large. (Don't flame me! I consider Karl "The Man!")
William Shatner: I ... must... get... to ... Rigel 4. How's ... the weather? What??? I NEED YOU TO GIVE ME ... ALL SHE'S GOT !!! Uhura! Open up a hailing frequency to New York Center! Warp factor 9 Mr. Sulu! Not now Bones! Let's boldly go where no self-respecting pilot has gone before!!! Naah Naaah, naah naah naah naah naaaaah, ... (wooooosh!).
Jesse Jackson: kept reciting prose during entire flight: " If you're flying in a Lear, you need not fear!" "Not flying charter is harder; flying in a crowded Boeing is no way to be going!"
Michael Jackson: ... Naaahh! Never mind! (HEEE HEEE HEEEEE!). (Are you a new co-pilot? You look very young! How old are you? Would you like some wine?).
Jason Voorhees: Would not remove hockey mask (ID picture was wearing said mask). Strange Sha Sha Sha Sha Sha sound throughout entire flight. Co-pilot, and nubile teen-age bimbo tart female passenger, never returned from trips to lav. Company complained about condition plane was left in (something about a head in the lav. What a bunch of pussies!).

LMAO

Hilarious

 

[enigma]

Funny Leardog.

Let's see. I don't really know why anyone cares who we've seen in an FBO or terminal, but after seven pages I figured we all care. So, here goes:

The first celeb I ran into in a terminal was Gomer Pyle, sorry that would be Jim Nabors, getting off the bullpen bus at Denver Stapleton. He was wearing a full length fur coat in the summer time, and large sun-glasses. He wasn't acknowledging anyone. Sorry Jim, your full length mink in the 90 degree heat sort or gives you away. I've seen Dan Dierdorf and John Sally at Fort Lauderdale. (Dierdorfs expression made for certain that no one approached him.What a surly looking man.) Bill Bradley at Newark, he was standing in line to buy coffee just like the rest of us.

I've flown Marilyn MaCoo and Billy Davis(great people), John Schnieder(real nice man), Bill Bennet (a bit of an arse), Steve Forbes (nice, but absolutely ZERO personality), various sports figures (Jeff Bagwell was nice, most don't give you the time of day), Clint Longley (sitting in coach to Vegas), Merideth Baxter-Birney (not really nice, but my landing sucked so I deserved it) My FA's occasionally tell me about some young famous musician, but I don't know em so I don't remember their names I carried a load of strippers out of Lake Powell once. I don't know if they were famous, my FO seemed to think so.(dumb as a box of rocks)

I tend to ignore someones celebrity status and talk to them as normal people. The best conversation I ever has was with Gallagher at ABQ. We talked about aviation, and stuff in general for about twenty minutes. Me the junior Mesa King Air FO, talking to the worlds best comic, who'd a thunk it?

And to answer the original question. In FBO's I've run into these: Jeff Burton at Signature MCO (nice guy, but not really outgoing, his ride was late and he couldn't decide if I knew who he was or not) Michael Douglas at Signature ORD ( he did his best to ignore every last person in the entire FBO) Richard Petty at ISM.(nice guy, but in a hurry) Bobby Rahal at LAS (in a hurry as well)

Overall, I've found celebrities to be a cross section of society. Some jerks, some real nice, most just there.

I almost left out my most special celebrity moment. I was sitting on the throne taking care of paperwork at Signature DCA back in 96 or 97 and I hear a familiar voice just outside the stall door. George Bush 41 was taking a leak. I pottied in the presence of a President!!!!!!!!
What an honor. Seriously, I'm still amazed that the secret service didn't sweep the room before he was allowed to enter.

engima

PS, I almost left out two significant persons. First would be any one of the counter girls at MillionAir Addison back in the 90's. Second, A buddy in college who shared some multi time with me brought along his wife one day. She was one year removed from being a Cowboys Cheerleader. Thanks Wes.

PPS, I ran into mar at the uniform shop in Miami. My first celebrity FI sighting

PPPS, I can't end without mentioning the Corporate Captain I watched enter the MillionAire MDW. This guy was dressed up like the Titanic Captain. He HAD to be some sort of celebrity, even if it was only in his own mind.

 

[Thedude]

Lets see if i can make this into another page and be the last post...

Memphis Grisleys
LA Lakers (saw Koby make a jackass out of himself with a f/a about three months after his Coloardo deal and Shaq is really cool but just a really big guy
Pacers (and yes, Ron Arties is a little bitch)
Kings
Clippers
Spurs
Nets
Wizards
Golden State Warriors
76er’s
Phylers
Bobcats
Kings
Timberwolves
Texas Rangers
Grizzles
NJ Devils
Nashville Predators
And a few other pro sports teams and college teams ( that I cant remember)
Majority of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Not to metion all the work we have done involving the DoD, DoE (and there mysterious container that had to be in the cabin but wouldn’t tell us how much it weighed) Secret Service, US Marshalls and all the illegals that I have flown to be deported

Met
Jenna Elfman (kinda strange and I think a chain smoker)
Catherin Manhamine (mega bitch)
Garry Busey (on a AA jumpseat and he was a jackass)
John Travolta ( at a Denny at 2 in the Morning back when he still had property in Spruce Creek and his manager? was a jackass.
Mark Martin (used to eat breakfast with him and didn’t know who he was)
The Pettys (friends of my mom)
Scott Crossfield (got his autograph on a copy of the Right Stuff.,.cool little old dude…hope I am like him one day)
Have flown mission support for the xv-15 and flew in formation with it from TX to DC…long day…

And more that I CANT REMEMBER

 

[CaravanMan]

Had the lead singer from Everclear on the same flight as me once into ICT. I saw that one lady from the Florida election screwup...what's her name? Katherine Harris maybe? Eh...you know who I mean...anyway saw her at MCI. And I'm 99% sure I saw Hulk Hogan on a Harley near Leisure World in the Laguna Beach area, lol.

 

[4fanman]

I've seen at fbo's:
Barry Manilow
President Ford
Jeb Bush (his pre-gubenor days)
Chuck Schumer (schmuck)

On my airline flights:
Engleberg Humperdink
John Edwards
numerous WWF types

On my charter flights:
Jeff Daniels (nice guy)
Steve Mariucci

 

[SigAV8R]

Oh he's been a celebrity long before FI!

Keeping with the subject at hand. My son handled Bill Cosby at the FBO where he used to work. Mr. Cosby was very rude and wouldn't even talk to him...his pilots wouldn't speak to him either. My son had a difficult time communicating with them.

<I'll let you guess why they wouldn't talk to him.>

I ran into The Cos @ KACT and his G4 pilots. They were very nice to us. This was back when I had fresh ink on my private license. BTW: I'm neither black or white.

 

[NookyBooky]

Not that it really matters, but I saw the the whore house owner from the show "Cathouse" at the Reno Air Races. He and his hooker girfriend were checking out a Beechjet in the pits.

 

[westwind]

Clint Longley (sitting in coach to Vegas)

Holy Crap! I'll bet that I am the only other guy on this board that knows who this guy is. He sure would have been handy last Monday, though . Why am I not surprised that he was flying coach?
I found a great recollection of his fifteen minutes of fame on this site http://thefatguy.com/?p=1976 .

 

[Hogprint]

Holy Crap! I'll bet that I am the only other guy on this board that knows who this guy is. He sure would have been handy last Monday, though . Why am I not surprised that he was flying coach?
I found a great recollection of his fifteen minutes of fame on this site http://thefatguy.com/?p=1976 .

I hate the cowboys! We finally broke some hearts in big D for a change! Hail to the Redskins!

Being in the frax we see a lot of these yahoos. Like someone said above, you get the good with the bad.

A few summers ago I was flying a big time college football coach who had won the National Championship the year before. While I was waiting for him a Lear pulls in and this big guy comes ambling up and yells "Hey, you must be waiting on the _ _ _ _ _ _ brothers!" I guess they were doing a football camp or something.

I'm thinking who is this guy. He comes up and we start talking airplanes and he hangs out with me for twenty minutes just shooting the breeze. It turns out it's Bernie Kosar! Great guy. Just yucking it up and full of life.

 

[cforst513]

ooooh, bernie kosar. i remember those years with the Browns....

 

[Flyforyou]

Flew Gabby Reese from IAD to RIC about 6 years ago. I'm still not sure how she crammed herself into that J41. Flew Andie McDowell from GSP to LGA a while back. She was very nice and gave us all autographs. Chris Collinsworth from LGA to CVG. Tall guy.

 

[AGuyThatFlys]

At Clay Lacy in BFI, I saw:

1. Governor of Washington State and one of the Senators, on their way to NAS Whidbey Island, to greet the crew of the EP-3C that collided with a Chinese fighter and made an emergency landing in Chinese territory. It was a little strange seeing them in-person, then a couple of hours later live on CNN.

2. Larry Flynt's airplane. What caught my eye was this bizjet in a metallic gold paint job with black trim. Then I noticed the N-number ended in "LF." Asked around the flight school I was teaching at if they noticed this plane. I was told he was in Seattle to promote a book.

3. John Kerry during the campaign.

Back in 2001, at RNT, the Governor again. He flew in on a Blackhawk helo touring the area after the Puget Sound earthquake hit. Got to stand next to him in my flying club's office and listen to him talk to President Bush about the quake damage.

 

[Almerick07]

Chevy Chase asked me for a ciggarette in LAX, didnt realize who he was even after he asked if I wanted his autograph....kind of pompous.

 

[Dolomite1and2]

Flew a VIP (HINT: he was once married to Elizabeth Taylor) into Frankfurt. About a half-hour out, “someone” on the flight deck cut some cheese that could’ve chased a maggot off a corpse. Everyone on the crew denied being the creative force behind this malodorous masterpiece and we soon troubleshot/isolated the cause to a defective VIP since he was the only one who didn’t deny it; but then, he couldn’t have denied it since he didn’t have a headset, right? We were yucking it up with the usual feigned-watering-eyes routines and the “open-a-window” and “let’s-get-on-oxygen” jokes. I turned around to discover that our brilliant engineer had taken it upon himself to issue the VIP a loaner headset (surprise!), but he appeared to be sleeping so maybe he didn’t hear us or he’d at least keep pretending like he didn’t hear us. When we got on the deck, he thanked us all and paid us some nice compliments and off he went with some general officers. We told our ops officer about the flight and the uber-flatus and all, and our ops officer says, “Well, now we know why Liz left him.”

 

[FL000]

Flew a VIP (HINT: he was once married to Elizabeth Taylor)

Geez...could you please narrow it down a bit for us?

 

[Dolomite1and2]

Well, that does narrow it down ... to about a dozen or so. What do you want; neon?

 

[FL000]

You're just trying to get me back, eh?

 

[Midnight Flyer]

There's a famous story about Oprah Winfrey in 1st class, who decided that the white #1 wasn't good enough to serve her, and demanded the African-American FA in coach trade places with the #1. Since I wasn't there, I can't vouch for the truth of it, but apparently Oprah is one of the most demanding, irritating passengers ever to grace a commercial flight.

I don't fly people, I fly freight, but my father is a captain for one of the legacy's and he had Oprah on his flight a few years ago. He said the flight attendants kept complaining to him that she took her shoes off and was trimming her toenails on board and the nails were shooting all over first class on the other passengers...gross.

 

[pilotmiketx]

He said the flight attendants kept complaining to him that she took her shoes off and was trimming her toenails on board and the nails were shooting all over first class on the other passengers...gross.

FA should've thrown a handful of macadamia nuts at her...

 

[jaxpilot]

Darrell Waltrip (Super Bowl in Jacksonville)
Few guys from Earth Wind and Fire (Super Bowl in Jacksonville)
Stephon Marbury (Knicks guard-Dream Team had a practice in JAX)
Ron Zook (came out of a C421 in Jacksonville, i think he was recruiting)
Mark Richt (came out of a UGA C-414 in Jacksonville, forgot if recruiting or if there was a game)
Atlanta Falcons G-4 parked on the ramp for a preseason game against Jaguars, Im sure one of the Blanks was aboard, but I dont know what they look like.

 

[CapnVegetto]

Ran into Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in TEB the night of the save Katrina special......was flying an unnamed CBS news guy home to NYC. I've flown Roy Jones Jr. in the past......nice guy, tipped $100 bucks. Ran into James Cromwell in ATL on one of the commercial concourses, very nice man. Also met Lance Storm in LIT when commuting into work durning my airline days. Nice guy, short, built like a tank.

Celebs aren't a big deal to me, I just treat 'em like normal folks....say hi.

 

[User546]

...she took her shoes off and was trimming her toenails on board and the nails were shooting all over first class on the other passengers...gross.

Hey, someone could probably make a lot of money on eBay selling those puppies!

 

[shamrock]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Jimmy Buffett yet. I met him a couple times in Connecticut and was threatened with termination from my CFI job because I had my picture taken with him. I guess asking the owner of my company to take the photo wasn't the best idea.

-Orca Winfrey while she was visiting her friend Gayle in CT.
-Kenny Rogers at BDL.
-That dorky musical guy from Letterman at HPN.
-Harrison Ford at CAK. Nice guy.
-Trishelle (from the Real World) in ATL. I think I'm the only guy in the world she wouldn't sleep with.
-Flew Bob Hoover , Tex Hill (Flying Tigers), and Joe McGee (Tuskeegee Airman) from MGM to ATL. Haven't felt that self-concious about my flying in a long time!
-Just missed a very impaired, make that sh!t faced, Billy Joel getting on his charter Helicopter from CT back to Long Island.

More to be added once I think of them.

 

[Jmmccutc]

Anyone ever run into John Madden in a rest stop? i did...i've had August Bush (budweiser guy), Kurt Busch (NASCAR guy), several State Govs. and crap like that at my airport...

 

[matchthehatch]

My flying partner back at FLOPS was in the snack room at SMO and saw some kids trying to get candy out of a machine. They were about a quarter short, so my buddy reached into his pocket and pulled out some change. He heard "I can take care of my own fu&$ing kids", and turned around to see Sean Penn. Apparently as big of a tool as is reported.

 

[pilotmiketx]

-Flew Bob Hoover , Tex Hill (Flying Tigers), and Joe McGee (Tuskeegee Airman) from MGM to ATL. Haven't felt that self-concious about my flying in a long time!

No pressure there! My first flight as LJ-60 copilot I flew Astronaut Gene Cernan (last dude on the moon.) Nice guy. Come to find out he's like a celebrity spokesmodel for Bombardier and is typed in the 60. And he still flies a lowly little C-421. I think that's just pretty cool.

 

[SCT]

I've flown:

Michael Douglas/ Cathrine Zeta Jones: Super nice, down to earth people. She is even more beautiful in person! She was shorter then I expected, though.

Sir Paul: Great guy, but a little quiet. He did give us a tip and told us to buy a few pints on our layover. We did have to remove all meat products and hunting magazines from the a/c before he arrived....

Neil Armstrong: He is a true American hero in my mind. I've flown him a few times since he is a friend of our CEO. The first time we flew him, he came up to the cockpit and asked a few general questions about the 604 while enroute. It was the highlight of my career!

Liz Claiborne: Nice lady, but uses to much of her own makeup.

Sean Combs (or whatever name he is using this week) and possey: Let's just say my boss said he will never be on our a/c again.

We did have a trip scheduled w/ Faith Hill but it cancled. ....I was majorly bummed!

 

[pilotmiketx]

Sean Combs (or whatever name he is using this week) and possey: Let's just say my boss said he will never be on our a/c again.

When we flew him he asked about a dozen times if we were going to carry his luggage OFF THE PLANE. No, you moron we're going to leave it. I've always wanted a tack-a-licious Louie Vuitton bag full of SeanJean shirts and furs in case I decide to take up Pimpin' for a hobbie.

 

[leardawg]

A few more I have flown:

O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake: they've apparently pooled their resources in a determined and un-ending effort to find the REAL killers of their respective spouses. O.J. had his golf clubs with him, planning to go undercover at Pebble Beach. I overheard Blake say " I ain't goin to no sissy rich-boy country club, and you can take dat to da bank! Dat's da name o' dat tune!" We dropped him off in LAS, where he was planning on following a hot lead at the Mustang Ranch.

Steven Segal: Apparently, the party he was flying with turned out to be an evil criminal-genius master-mind, along with his ex-commando henchmen. Their plan was to hook into Norad via laptop and flightfone, and demand that a Billion dollars be deposited in a secret bank account, or they would start WWIII. Luckily, Mr. Segal was in the lav when they made their move. He apparently crawled down through the toilet, and for the next several hours (TEB to SMO), moved through the bowels of the airplane, dispatching the bad guys one by one. Earlier, we knew we were safe when we heard a noise, and saw Segal's face peering up through the space by my rudder pedals, making the "ssssshhhhh" sign! All of this in a Hawker 800XP!

Come to thing of it, similar experiences happened flying both Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

Arnold Schwarzenneger: Really lit into us when we told him we would have to delay our departure due to destination weather: "You ah both nothing but a bunch of little Girlie-Men! Look at you both! I can crush your heads with my thumb and foah-fingah! Your buttocks ah flabby, like two marshmallows. Lucky for you dze FBO does not have dze camp-fire!"

The Sling Blade Dude: Very particular on his catering: "Biscuits and mustard. A bag of them sliced dried taters. A bottle of sodie-pop. Mmmmmmm." Delivered in a paper bag with a big grease stain on the bottom. Luggage consisted of identical bag.

The Dukes of Hazzard dudes: There was another jet on the ramp apparently chartered by Boss Hogg, in an attemp to follow the dukes and catch them up to no good. Daisy distracted the line guys while the boys reprogrammed the FMS to coordinates in the middle of the Pacific. The last transmission we heard from that jet was "This is Sheriff Roscoe P. Choltrane, and we are lost! Repeat Lost! Oooooohhhh, kewkewkew!" Meanwhile, back at the cabin Uncle Jesse ...

 

[Airway]

Tried to get through a small crowd at a Signature at Detroit City on our way to Canada to drop off one of our mechanics. I was a little annoyed with a group of teenagers dressed in "trendy rags" and they shuffled by me from the counter to their G-IV or V. I was chatting with the guy at the counter and said something like "nice plane those guys have... rich parents?" He laughed and said it was Maroon 5 and I guess with some of their friends.

Adam