Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was spotted hanging out at Ottawa's Space And Aviation Museum earlier this week and even took advantage of their biplane rides!

Aside from fronting the British metal icons, Dickinson is a commercial pilot and has famously flown the band on the The Book Of Souls World Tour 2016 using a Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet, which is almost twice the size and over three times the weight of the Boeing 757 used on previous tours in 2008/9/11. This year the new Ed Force One took the band, crew and over 12 tons of equipment more than 55,000 miles (88,500km) around the planet with concerts in six of the seven continents (Australasia, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Europe), visiting around 35 countries. The continues in Europe early in the new year.

Ottawa's Space And Aviation Museum engages visitors with the wonder of flight through its spectacular collection, educational programming, activities, and special events. The Museum focuses on aviation in Canada, but within an international context, from its beginnings in 1909 to the present day. As Canada’s contribution to aviation expanded to include aerospace technology, the Museum’s collection and mandate grew to include space flight.

The Collection itself consists of more than 130 aircraft and artifacts (propellers, engines) from both civil and military service. It gives particular, but not exclusive, reference to Canadian achievements. The most extensive aviation collection in Canada, it is also considered one of the finest in the world.

For more details click here.

(Photo kindly provided by Nancy Beaulieu)