{"id":607,"date":"2016-02-18T03:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2016-02-18T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:09:21","slug":"iron-maidens-boeing-747-arrived-cardiff-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden&#8217;s Boeing 747 has arrived at Cardiff Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden&#8217;s Boeing 747 has arrived at Cardiff Airport. The legendary British heavy metal band has a new private 747 airplane ready for their up coming world tour. The plane, dubbed &#8220;Ed Force One&#8221; after the bands mascot, arrived\u00a0last night in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. The Boeing 747 <b><\/b> is being piloted on the tour by the bands lead singer Bruce Dickinson. Dickinson, who has piloted the band on\u00a0previous\u00a0world tours flying a 757,\u00a0was a captain\u00a0for ten years for\u00a0Astraeus Airlines. Dickinson first learned to fly in Florida during\u00a0the 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h2>Iron Maiden World Tour 2016<\/h2>\n<p xml:lang=\"en-US\">The Iron Maiden 747 jumbo jet will be landing at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport this\u00a0Friday.\u00a0The band\u00a0kicks off its &#8220;The Book of Souls World Tour&#8221; on February 24 at the BB&amp;T Center in Sunrise, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-610\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Iron-Maiden-747-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Iron-Maiden-747\" width=\"631\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Iron-Maiden-747-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Iron-Maiden-747-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Iron-Maiden-747-1024x539.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Iron-Maiden-747.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo from www.ironmaiden.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden&#8217;s Boeing 747 has arrived at Cardiff Airport. The legendary British heavy metal band has a new private 747 airplane ready for their up coming world tour. The plane, dubbed &#8220;Ed Force One&#8221; after the bands mascot, arrived\u00a0last night in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. The Boeing 747 is being piloted on the tour by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[95,63,67,41,62,61,96,94],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-95","tag-63","tag-aviation-news","tag-boeing","tag-ed-force-one","tag-iron-maiden","tag-the-book-of-souls","tag-world-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}