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Rolling Stones Aircraft
This aircraft had a converted 50 passenger corporate interior with get this, a working shower!
In 1989 I flew (as their personal private aircraft transportation consultant) the Rolling Stones… Had the opportunity to fly the boys for their Steel Wheels North America tour in this Boeing 707-128 (remember this aircraft?) model ship.
This bird had a converted 50 passenger corporate interior with get this, a working shower! At that time they toured during the Thanksgiving holiday and I remember getting a call from the road/tour manager right in the middle of my Thanksgiving dinner. He wanted to remind me that Mick wanted the shower hot-water temp right at 137 degrees… I accommodated his request by contacting the service base the aircraft was parked at to make sure the H20 temp would be on-the-mark for when the Stones showed up for departure that day.
The lessons I learned from providing private aircraft transportation consultation for the largest of entertainers in the world was to keep a fairly low profile. In this instance however, with the Rolling Stones ‘tongue’ plastered on the side of the aircraft (partly for marketing) I had to come up with some interesting diversions… some very silly…
Like the time I had convinced the aircraft parking personnel that the tongue was an icon for a ‘flag’ of the foreign country that owned the aircraft. Most of the time we couldn’t hide the fact that the boys were on the plane. But fortunately, parking a private (air)ship from ‘plane’ sight (hehe) – away from prying eyes – comes easily enough with the territory of personal aircraft. I feel so privilege to had flown the biggest and the best of major rock ‘n roll bands in the days (gone past)!’
At that time they toured during the Thanksgiving holiday and I remember getting a call from the road/tour manager right in the middle of my Thanksgiving dinner. He wanted to remind me that Mick wanted the shower hot-water temp right at 137 degrees… I accommodated his request by contacting the service base the aircraft was parked at to make sure the H20 temp would be on-the-mark for when the Stones showed up for departure that day.
The lessons I learned from providing private aircraft transportation consultation for the largest of entertainers in the world was to keep a fairly low profile. In this instance however, with the Rolling Stones ‘tongue’ plastered on the side of the aircraft (partly for marketing) I had to come up with some interesting diversions… some very silly. Like the time I had convinced the aircraft parking personnel that the tongue was an icon for a ‘flag’ of the foreign country that owned the aircraft.
Most of the time we couldn’t hide the fact that the boys were on the plane. But fortunately, parking a private (air)ship from ‘plane’ sight (hehe) – away from prying eyes – comes easily enough with the territory of personal aircraft.
I feel so privilege to had flown the biggest and the best of major rock ‘n roll bands in the days (gone past)!
