The Skull cap on the handle and set  the tone for Heavy Metal vocalist Bruce Dickinson at the concert by British band Iron Maiden in Sao Paulo, last friday (25). But this Monday was the day the pilot Dickinson.
Jeans and shirt printed clearly, as a tourist, the fan of aviation TAM visited the museum in San Carlos, with 76 aircraft on display.

Because of the godfather of the British Air Force engineer, the singer says that since young he lived surrounded by aircraft.

20 years ago decided to become an aviator. He plays with the myth that he had a pilot. "I thought it needed to be a scientist to fly, but then I saw that no, you could be kind of stupid."

Since 2008, Dickinson flies the Ed Force One, a Boeing 757 that carries the band on tour.

John Amaro, TAM president of the museum, Dickinson praised by saying that he can talk "on an equal footing" with the airline's pilots.

Not so. The artist said he was surprised yesterday to learn that the Brazilian Air Force planes fought the Germans in World War I (1939-45). And learned that Santos Dumont invented the wristwatch.

Dickinson, moreover, tried to be diplomatic about who is the father of aviation - the title given by the Brazilian Santos Dumont, in controversy with the flight of the Wright brothers in 1906, three years before.

"The aircraft was invented almost simultaneously by many people." Then, Wright praised and quoted a fellow countryman, George Cayley, who flew in a glider.

If you could win one of the aircraft, Dickinson also resort to the origins: choose a Spitfire, the fighter who scored a hit British in WWII.