Possible Clues:

• Successful person
• Speculative stock, so to speak
• On a trip notice (with eye, say) an extremely successful type
• Successful type
• Leaders of Heathrow Institute give honour to pilot. He's going somewhere
• Successful person (in an aeroplane?)
• Speculative stock, or Dracula when hopped-up?
• Sounds as if you too will get to the top
• Brilliant city type to become astronaut?
• Ambitious pilot