Millions knew John Travolta as the dancing heartthrob of\u00a0Saturday Night Fever<\/em>, Danny Zuko in\u00a0Grease<\/em>, and the star who reinvented himself with\u00a0Pulp Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n But away from Hollywood, Travolta built another life \u2014\u00a0in the cockpit.<\/strong><\/p>\n His fascination with airplanes began when he was young. He took flying lessons as a teenager and earned his pilot\u2019s license in 1978. Over the decades, aviation became far more than a celebrity hobby. Travolta trained to fly multiple types of jets, including major Boeing aircraft.<\/p>\n At one point, he even owned his own\u00a0Boeing 707<\/strong>, a former Qantas aircraft that he personally flew. In 2002, after becoming a Qantas Ambassador-at-Large, Travolta piloted that 707 on an extraordinary 13-city journey around the world.<\/p>\n And his passion literally followed him home.<\/p>\n Travolta\u2019s Florida property was designed around aviation. It had access to a\u00a07,500-foot runway<\/strong>, with a taxiway strong enough for his 707. His planes could sit roughly 100 feet from the house \u2014 almost like enormous cars parked outside the front door.<\/p>\n There was also a frightening side to his flying life.<\/p>\n In 1992, Travolta was piloting his Gulfstream II with family and friends aboard when the aircraft suffered a major electrical failure in the skies near Washington. With the cockpit essentially dark and communications lost, Travolta and his copilot eventually managed to land safely. No one was injured.<\/p>\n More than three decades later, he still hasn\u2019t given up his passion.<\/p>\n In 2026, at 72, Travolta proudly announced another aviation achievement: qualifying as second-in-command on the long-range\u00a0Global Express<\/strong>\u00a0jet.<\/p>\n Perhaps that reveals something about John Travolta that movie fans don\u2019t always see.<\/p>\n Hollywood made him famous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Millions knew John Travolta as the dancing heartthrob of\u00a0Saturday Night Fever, Danny Zuko in\u00a0Grease, and the star who reinvented himself with\u00a0Pulp Fiction. But away from Hollywood, Travolta built another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chua-phan-loai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogtamsu.com.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}