Pilot Celebrities... who are they?

[petrolero]

The Morgan Freeman thread surprised me. I didn't know he was a pilot. Who else is there?

I know the typical ones. Off the top of my head...

• Harrison Ford
• John Travolta
• Jimmy Buffet
• Morgan Freeman (as I learned yesterday)
• Both the Presidents Bush
• Tom Cruise
• Angelina Jolie
• Clint Eastwood
• Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden front man - not the guy from the more cowbell skit )

Who else is famous or semi-famous and flies?

 

[Jim Logajan]

Another list with some surprises:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

Nice list. I recently watched a documentary that was just released this summer about Susan Oliver that covers some of her flying; Star Trek fans should also be interested: http://thegreengirlmovie.com/

I'd read her book, "Odyssey, A Daring Transatlantic Journey" a couple years ago. Very good - definitely something I think any pilot could relate to. Unfortunately it is out of print and hard to come by.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Another list with some surprises:

http://www.aerofiles.com/00stars.html

Interesting - I count 93 confirmed celebrity pilots on that list, but only 5 women. Pretty close to the same ratio of women pilots among the general population of pilots. [FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Ruth Chatterton, [/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Michelle Goodeve, [/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Osa Johnson, [/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Angelina Jolie, [/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Susan Oliver.[/FONT]

 

[Jim Logajan]

I can think of a couple of fails, Cory Lidle and Thurman Munson.

One could add Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart to that list, but they were both celebrities due to their aviation activities, not celebrities who also happened to have earned pilot certificates.