Wow- U Saw Who??

[fr8r]

I have seen a few famous people while out and about myself. The latest was Tom Cruise at ROA boarding a G4 he chartered. Also, Jimmy Buffet at Columbia, SC getting off of his Hawker(I think that is what he was flying... tail number starting with JB...) I saw Mikail Gorbechav(spelling?) The ex russian president in SLC, Dick Cheney in columbia, sc(Strom Thurman Funeral)

The best one yet... I sat next to DONNIE OSMOND on a flight from ORD to SLC in 1996. He was traveling back to Provo. He was a very nice guy and we played games on his laptop the whole flight. There wasn't a pretentious bone in his body, as down to earth as a person could be.

oh, and every Utah Jazz player at SLC!

 

[Lostdog65]

Brushes with Greatness/Celebrity?

Peter Ustinov at London Heathrow.

During my flight training, I worked as the Maitre D' then Room Service at the Westin Hotel Williams Center in TUL.

Roger Miller - C/W musician
Mel Torme - The Velvet Fog (no pants on...just boxers!)
The road crew from the Steve Miller Band. ("Hey...where's the dive bars?")
Rita Moreno - "West Side Story" (She held my hand and called me a sweetie!)
Richard Harrison - "Man Called Horse". Wanted something more than a damn club sandwich!
George Bush Sr. when he was VP. Actually...I never saw him, just his Secret Service men after I was vetted to serve on the 10th floor!

In FBO's:

Robert Redford - Short sucker who hid his face.
Mother Theresa - short woman but smiled alot.
Michael Dorn (Worf) - Actually just his jet.
The Dallas Mavericks - After they got their butts kicked by the Golden State Warriors. Coach was b!tchin' them out all the way through KaiserAir to the 727 on the ramp.

Various Citings:

James Dobson and family (Focus on the Family guy) - Denver airport when it was Stapleton.
Ashley Judd - At Grand Junction. Helped her get an ice cream out of the vending machine. She wasn't wearing a bra. Got distracted a lot. She was nice. Quiet but nice.
Ann Venneman - former Secretary of Agriculture.

I'm a close personal friend of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Got the pictures to prove it. I interviewed him after one of his shows in Redding. He was...well...weird man! (Actually a really nice guy when he's not being "Weird Al".)

My dad almost ran over Haley Mills (the orignal "Parent Trap") in England one time.

That's all I can remember now...I'll probably remember one more sometime tonight!

Eric

 

[Wyatt]

Flown:
Dan Rather
Richard Farnsworth (Super nice guy...The Best R.I.P.)
Richard Kiel
Michael Keaton
Reggie Jackson
Lance Armstrong
Seka
Wayne Gretsky
Fred Couples
Martha Stewart
Barbra Walters
Ray Floyd
Paula Zahn
Muhammad Ali
Dan Quayle




Met or saw at FBO's
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Morgan Freeman
Michael Eisner
Lou Rawls
Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
Michael Dorn
Christy Canyon
Bill Cosby
William Shatner
James Brown
David Copperfield
Scotty Pippin
Julia Roberts
Gene Hackman
Bruce Willis

 

[30West]

Flown while at USAir express and NW Airlink-

Jack Wagner
Peter Fonda
Tim Allen
Sinbad
Gap Band
Bob Denver
Ally Sheedy
Andy Rooney
Ed Koch

Sat next to Candice Cameron on a NW flight DTW-MSP, but didn't know who she was at the time until we started to chat.

 

[ultrarunner]

Han Solo, preflighting his Beech 36 in TEB several years back.

Had a nice chat.

top that one! ;-)

 

[pgcfii2002]

Didnt' fly any of these people but saw them at the FBO I was working at:

Drummer for Metallica...Lars Ulrich or somthing like that
Cher (even at 80, she looks hot)
Sean Connery
Herb Kelleher
Harrison Ford and his skeleton girlfriend
Arnold Swar....ze...negger (The Terminator)
George Lucas (he's short and fat now)
Magic Johnson

 

[dsee8driver]

Flown:
Dan Rather
Richard Farnsworth (Super nice guy...The Best R.I.P.)
Richard Kiel
Michael Keaton
Reggie Jackson
Lance Armstrong
Seka
Wayne Gretsky
Fred Couples
Martha Stewart
Barbra Walters
Ray Floyd
Paula Zahn
Muhammad Ali
Dan Quayle




Met or saw at FBO's
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Morgan Freeman
Michael Eisner
Lou Rawls
Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
Michael Dorn
Christy Canyon
Bill Cosby
William Shatner
James Brown
David Copperfield
Scotty Pippin
Julia Roberts
Gene Hackman
Bruce Willis

So...was she as hot in person? Now...that's old school porn there...

 

[Sim Sweat]

Wow - pretty impressive lists so far.

Mine:
Calvin Kline
Ed Bradley
Carly Simon
Elle McPherson (biggest b1tch I ever met, but pregnant at the time)
Marvin Hamlisch (huge pr1ck, just rude)
Ed Koch, former NYC Mayor
Melanie Griffith and daughter Dakota - Super sweet!
Christie Brinkley (absolutely the DUMBest woman I ever met!)
Katie Courick
Regis Philbin
Kate Capshaw (another super nice woman)
Sylvester Stallone (idiot)
Charles Grodin (very decent guy)
and others I've forgotten.

When Jimmy Buffet used to do the summers in HTO years ago, I flew his Citation SII to a few of his concerts. Nice guy, not pretentious at all, but that was then.

 

[kilroy]

Short list

People flown

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

QUEEN NOOR OF JORDAN

James Carville

Ari Fleischer (white house press secretary)

General Tommy Franks

Mandy Moore

Andy Roddick

Ludacris

Rev Run

Russel Simmons

Cameron Diaz

Mindy Mcreedy ( had 3 big ass body gaurds)

Dicky "V"

People Seen:

Jerry Bruckhiemer (Pissed next to him in the urinal PIE)

Richie Sambora ( Pissed next to him also FXE)

Bob Doyle turned around in IAD and dang near knocked him over

Oliver North IAD

Suzane Summers IAD

Heather Locklear, Jon Bon Jove,Rich Sambora and the rest of Bon Jovi TPA

Kiss-BNA Old looking

Tom Petty TEB

Bruce Springsteen Asked i fI knew were his aircraft is Glf-5 how hard could it be to fund

Train ( tears from Jupiture) we flew them for 5 days in a row

Wrestler Mankind ( could barely walk )

Shaq ( what an A$$)

Clay Lacey (Having a beer and eating in the lounge he sat beside me at the bar)

John Travolta twice really nice guy ILM/PGD

Bush senior in PGD​

 

[Occam's Razor]

Name dropping!

Cool!

Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson had dinner at my house last month. I got home from a trip and they were in my dining room.

I had no idea, and didn't recognize either of them. My wife introduced me and I was as idiot.

Wife: "Josh is helping with our fund-raiser for the ____ this year, and Scarlett was in town with him."
Me: "Oh...Great. So what will you be doing?"
Wife: "Um...he's a movie star. He'll show up and say a few words."
Me: "What was your last name again?"
Josh: "Hartnett."
Me: "Oh yeah...'Blackhawk Down'...good movie."

Scarlett is an uber-Hottie and has an amazing giggle.

My wife made her crappy homemade ravioli with pesto. They both said they liked it. They are good actors!

 

[kilroy]

Name dropping!

Cool!

Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson had dinner at my house last month. I got home from a trip and they were in my dining room.

I had no idea, and didn't recognize either of them. My wife introduced me and I was as idiot.

Wife: "Josh is helping with our fund-raiser for the ____ this year, and Scarlett was in town with him."
Me: "Oh...Great. So what will you be doing?"
Wife: "Um...he's a movie star. He'll show up and say a few words."
Me: "What was your last name again?"
Josh: "Hartnett."
Me: "Oh yeah...'Blackhawk Down'...good movie."

Scarlett is an uber-Hottie and has an amazing giggle.

My wife made her crappy homemade ravioli with pesto. They both said they liked it. They are good actors!

U f()cking with us Razor??

Pretty cool if true.

 

[pgcfii2002]

I heard Tim Allen is also a big time pr*ck.

 

[habubuaza]

George W Bush (prior to becoming President)
Helen Hunt (Bitch)
Yoko Ono (simple)
Down town Judy Brown (with another british girl)
Tony Randall
Sean Lennon
Sammy Sosa
Mike Tyson (just a few months ago after Roy Jones JR fight)
Simeon Rice (all the time at the clubs in TPA)
Warrick Dunn
Cadillac Williams (same as simeon)
Anne Richards (just about two weeks ago)
Frank Thomas
Carlos Delgado (smoking serious cigars, surrounded by serious fine AZZ chics)
(flew him a bunch of times..also reggae club in TPA)
Most of the Yankees
Allen Iverson (one seriously cool cat!)
John Gotti Jr (prior to troubles)
Flew:
Chicago Bulls, Whitesox, Toronto Blue Jays, Ottawa Senators, NJ Devils, Dallas Stars, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland A's, Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Lightning, Boston Bruins, Most of White House Press Corps, Philadelphia 76'ers

many more I can't remember..

 

[ultrarunner]

Helen Hunt (Bitch)

that's it then, it's OVER with her!

 

[Occam's Razor]

U f()cking with us Razor??

Nah. My wife is on the Board of Governors of a large non-profit organization. She got tapped to run the annual fund-raiser this year, which blows (she'll work her hiney off putting it together). The group has a connection to Hartnett.

She claims she mentioned the visit to me before my trip...but I only listen to her when it starts with,

• I wrecked the...
• You forgot...
• Why didn't you...
• I won the...
• Please kill....

...or, she's yelling.

 

[UGAflyer]

I was at Simcom with Kurt Russell a week or so ago. Seemed like a nice guy.

 

[SiouxHockeyFan]

Bob Saget CLT-ROA-No the Olsen twins weren't with him

 

[leardawg]

Have flown:

Martha Stewart (was in a good mood - for her - that day!).
Peyton Manning (nicest, most down-to-earth celebrity I have dealt with. He actually apologized for the size of his and his wifes' bags, and offered to help load!).
His dad, Archie Manning.
Fred Couples (Golfer); nice guy.
Al Michaels (real down-to-earth and friendly).
Norwegian actress Liv Ullman (she and her party cleaned the airplane and bagged the catering and trash before we landed).
Jim Thome - nice guy.
Mack McClarty (Clintons' White House Chief of Staff and childhood friend - nice guy).


Have run across:

John Mellencamp
Emeril LeGasse
Michael Milken (babbling to a friend about some amazing kids toy);
LeLe Sobieski (hot actress).
Morris Chesnut (actor);
Terrence Stamp (actor-played lead bad guy from Planet Krypton in Superman movie).
Passed Aaron Neville on escalator @ ATL (had trouble holding onto rail due to too much Cocoa buh-uh-ter!
Darrell Waltrip
Some old guy who's a character actor in dozens of movies stuck his head in the pilot lounge @ LAS Executive (hey! It's That Guy!).
Annie Wilson of Heart (Huuuge gal).
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue (asked me where men's room was @ Avitat HPN-had to go real bad!).
Reggie Jackson
Jessie Jackson (@MSY after Katrina).
Shuttle Astronaut John Grunsfeld flying an Aero Commander @ North American PWK (I was flying with a friend of his - talked with him for a while, and he gave me a Patch from his latest mission to service the Hubble Telescope).
Senators Evan Bayh, Christopher Dodd.
Dick Cheney (before he was Veep) @ Lane Aviation in CMH (almost ran into him as he came around a corner; we did the left/right dance and he nodded and said "How ya doin'").
Bill Richardson, then Energy Sec (now New Mexico Gov); had to wait to use the men's room @ Signature ALB while secret service guarded it so he could take a dump. Big guy!
Was @ IX Jet CLE when Air Force One came in with Clinton. Everyone had to vacate the FBO for about 20 min while Secret Service did a sweep with dogs. Saw him from a distance get off the plane.
John Kerry while campaigning, @ Galaxy PBI.
Mikael Gorbachev @ Dupage Jet Ctr.

 

[Wyatt]

CHRISTY CANYON

So...was she as hot in person? Now...that's old school porn there...

Yeah she was...Tiny little gal...(except for her natural endowments) she couldnt have been taller than 5'2" or so. Very nice, sweet, and easy to talk to.

 

[HawkerF/O]

I used to fly Tom Delay frequently in 2004. Actually flew him to the Republican National Convention in 2004. I'm still in church begging for forgivness. The man upstairs is still not talking to me.

Rusty Wallace at Jet-TEB in Dec for the Nascar awards dinner
Rudy Guliani- Never been to Million Air TEB and not seem him there
Ken Fineberg- 9/11 paymaster to the famalies. Spoke with him for about 10 minutes and he was surprised anyone knew who he was. Lots of respect for that guy

Lots of others I don't feel like hashing up right now