COURAGEOUS Patrick Swayze has run out of miracles, according to doctors who say the Dirty Dancing star has no hope of beating the pancreatic cancer that's killing him by inches. But the determined hunk is refusing to go down without a fight, and Patrick has one less thing to worry about... the paparazzi!Swayze, 55, who’s been hounded by photo hunters since announcing last month he has pancreatic cancer, is secretly using a government airbase for his flights between the hospital at Stanford University and his home in SoCal.
A friend of the Ghost and Dirty Dancing icon says Swayze somehow got rare permission from officials at Moffett Federal Airfield, a former Navy base now operated by NASA near San Jose, Calif., to land the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 he pilots himself. Swayze takes the one-hour flight to Moffett bi-monthly for chemo treatments.
According to FAA literature, Moffett can only be used with special permission, and only if it involves government business.
Why the secret-agent scheme? I’m told Swayze didn’t appreciate the appearance of unflattering shots of him engaging in what you’d think would be the farthest from the mind of a cancer victim: Smoking! He wants fans to remember him as he was.
“He figures there’ll be no paparazzi at Moffett,” the source said.
Only military personnel live on the base, and folks who don’t work for the federal government are rarely allowed in.
Let a dying man do what he wants! It is nobody's business but his.
