Many movie stars have fallen in love with aviation, some even with PPG: William Shatner is a keen PPG pilot and Jedi Knight Ewan Macgregor recently took up paragliding. Now Saturday Night Fever and Pulp Fiction star John Travolta is rumoured to be dabbling in paramotoring.
Travolta has been involved in aviation for many years and holds a licence for many types of single and multi-engined jets and even regularly flies a Boeing 707. During the shooting of Travolta’s new film in New Mexico, the stunt coordinator and PPG pilot Jack Gill set up his Black Hawk 172 paramotor in the hope of tempting the star into the sport.
Unfortunately Travolta’s maiden flight wasn’t to be, as an over-zealous Park Ranger stopped them, stating it was against Park Regulations! Next time John…

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm and is filed under News.