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Didn’t know who this was, so I looked him up. Who has a personal 787? Turns out he’s an Argentine actor and film magnate who is an ex-commercial pilot. I guess
by patentatt 5y ago
Didn’t know who this was, so I looked him up. Who has a personal 787? Turns out he’s an Argentine actor and film magnate who is an ex-commercial pilot. I guess that’s one way to come to own your own ~$122m aircraft.
- devb 5y agoThat reminds me of the Iron Maiden 747, piloted by their singer: https://simpleflying.com/iron-maiden-747/ https://simpleflying.com/iron-maiden-747/
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoAnd John Travolta with a 707.
- wp381640 5y agoHe has donated it to a great aircraft museum in Australia - it should be making its way down this year. They have spent years getting it back to spec to make the trans-pacfic flight back home
- Judgmentality 5y agoThe irony of not being able to the transport the thing that usually transports the things.
- failwhaleshark 5y agoIIRC, he had it parked right up to his house.
- alistairSH 5y agoYup. Description of property: https://www.aerotime.aero/22859-john-travoltas-house https://www.aerotime.aero/22859-john-travoltas-house Photo of house w/ 707 in "car-port" from above article: https://www.aerotime.aero/upload/files/john-travoltas-house-is-an-airport1.jpg https://www.aerotime.aero/upload/files/john-travoltas-house-...
- toyg 5y agoI'm not a fan of Iron Maiden's music but from all I read they sound like absolute top blokes. They also licensed "Eddie" to Robinsons Brewery, a smallish company based in Stockport, to produce their "Trooper" beer - which is actually pretty fine.
- salmo 5y agoSpent some time in Brimingham. Worked crazy hours, but would wander at night. Local beer was a little rare in the places around our hotel (probably because we were near Broad Street), but they had "Trooper" at Malt House. It was actually really great. That may also be influenced by the fact that I mostly only could get foreign light lagers everywhere else, and Malt House was a great place to relax on the canal a little away from the Hen Party craziness.
- fnord77 5y ago403 Forbidden :(
- tim333 5y agoha - works ok from here
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThe owners of the now defunct Fry's Electronics also owned the Arena Football team the San Jose SaberCats and additionally owned/leased/rented/sponsored various aircraft including a 747 SP. 1968 GULFSTREAM G1159B N24YS (still owned by the Fry family) 1976 ROCKWELL NA-265-60 N607CF (now owned by an airshow) 1955 PIPER PA-23 N3494B (owned by someone else) 1971 GULFSTREAM G1159B N44YS (still owned by the Fry family) 1976 ROCKWELL NA-265-60 N39CB (now owned by an airshow) 1977 DEHAVILLAND CANADA DHC-6-300 N814BC (still owned by the Fry family) 1978 BOEING 727-281(A)(RE) N724YS (now registered to a UK blind trust) 1980 BOEING 747SP-27 N747A (now owned by NASA) 1981 ROCKWELL NA-265-65 N88BF (still owned by the Fry family) 1981 ROCKWELL NA-265-65 N654YS (still owned by the Fry family) 1992 BEECH B300 N4YS (still owned by the Fry family) 2011 GULFSTREAM G280 N38GL (now owned by a casino corporation)
- kart23 5y agoWow this reminded me, I saw the fry's 747 at an airshow. I was pretty young at the time, but it was crazy seeing a 747 fly so low. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08G4z63PShc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08G4z63PShc
- virtue3 5y agoI thought the camera was distorted as hell until I realized that no, the 747SP is just... super stumpy hahaha. That is -insane- low for a craft like that.
- HeavyStorm 5y agoFry is defunct? That's so sad! I bought a number of things there on a few trips I made to Cali back in... 2013! Well, that explains it.
- failwhaleshark 5y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-closure/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/business/frys-electronics-clo... Edit: Yes, the electronics store chain and not just the grocery store that was at Kooser and Camden many, many years.
- chrisweekly 5y agoYeah! Bruce Dickinson is an amazingly talented person. And Iron Maiden is one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
- joezydeco 5y agoComlux bought it from Aeromexico in their bankruptcy, but it looks like Piñeyro might be leasing it from Comlux.
- thatguy0900 5y agoI have to imagine maintenance and storage of a 787 is way worse than the purchase price
- akiselev 5y agoAccording to [1], it costs United about $15,000 an hour to run their 787. Of that, $7,371 finances the plane ("ac cost"), $786 for maintenance ("mx"), $5,259 for fuel, and $1,335 for crew. I'm assuming industry average utilization of roughly ~4000 hours a year of flight time so that works out to about $3 million in maintenance and $28 million in loan repayments per year. Thing is, you have to keep the 787 flying - they're not designed to be parked for weeks or months at a time. Normally that'd be a problem for a business jet since they're little more than toys for rich people but the 787 is up to 20% more fuel efficient than comparable older models. As long as its set up for cargo, the owner can just rent it out and have someone else cover the majority of the maintenance burden. It wouldn't be profitable, but if you need (or want) a brand new commercial jet, it's an easy way to subsidize that cost. [1] https://www.planestats.com/bhsw_2014sep https://www.planestats.com/bhsw_2014sep
- jimbob45 5y agoThe question then is whether he owns it and farms it out to the airlines or if the airline owns it and rents it to him.
- dillondoyle 5y agoWould reply to child but too nested. Maybe it's this one for charter? https://www.privatefly.com/private-jets/large-airliner-hire/Boeing-787-8-Dreamliner.html https://www.privatefly.com/private-jets/large-airliner-hire/... Looks pretty cool if I was wealthier and wanted a destination wedding this would be the way!
- wizzwizz4 5y agoThere is no “too nested”. If it doesn't show a “reply” button, click on the timestamp instead.
- elondaits 5y agoHe’s also the nephew of Paolo Rocca, CEO of the Techint conglomerate (steel, mining, oil and gas, etc.) and worth $3.7 billion according to Wikipedia.
- geoduck14 5y agoIs he single?
- phreeza 5y agoA mining & oil tycoon flies his private 787 over some fishing vessels to complain about ecological damage. Pot... Kettle...
- syops 5y agoA person’s hypocrisy has nothing to do with the validity of the complaints they make. A given complaint is valid/invalid on its own merits and the fact that the person making the complaint is a hypocrite does not invalidate the legitimacy of the complaint.
- phreeza 5y agoI fully agree, but I still found it interesting/funny.
- subroutine 5y agoI know u jest. fwiw at least he's an Argentine pot; maybe he was saying 'if we're to have ecological disasters in Argentina it should at least benefit Argentines'
- taneq 5y agoOne airliner flight is going to do a little less overall environmental damage than 400 illegal fishing trawlers operating every day.
- belter 5y agoAlso interview during the flight here: https://youtu.be/jCCJQjEq4b8 https://youtu.be/jCCJQjEq4b8 (In Spanish but subtitles will work well for English translation)
- jb1991 5y agoJohn Travolta also has his own 707, which he flies himself.
- cosmodisk 5y agoHis Wikipedia entry reads like he's some sort of MacGyver meets Batman and goes business.
- nahuel0x 5y agoHe is also a member of the Rocca family, one of the richest families of Argentina. That helps.
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- jonp888 5y ago> Enrique Piñeyro (born 1956 in Genoa, Italy) is an Argentine-Italian ex air line pilot turned film actor, producer, crash analyst, aeronautical physician, film director, and screenplay writer, working partly in Argentina. That's quite a career!