Air display teams from Ireland and Swansea will help get the Corbett Wilson 100th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start this weekend.

Following his successful first flight from the UK to Ireland in 1912, Denys Corbett Wilson gave a number of dramatic air displays in Ireland, England and France.

When his historic flight is celebrated in Fishguard and Goodwick this weekend, air displays will be the order of the day to follow this tradition.

Starting at 9.50am on Sunday April 22nd – the 100th anniversary of the historic Goodwick to Enniscorthy flight – there’s a flypast by Huw Baumgartner in his Microlight – a plane much the same size as Corbett Wilson’s original Bleriot XI monoplane.

Fly Heli Wales will be running helicopter pleasure flights over Goodwick and the sea, following the start of the original flight’s route.

They will be taking off and landing in Goodwick Moor Car Park from 10am, and souvenir maps will show the many points of interest and features.

From 10am to 11am there will be flypasts by a variety of aircraft flown by Martin Stevens, John Fisher and other members of the Pembrokeshire Flying Club.

Several aeroplanes will be flying over from Ireland in the morning to join with planes from Haverfordwest to put on a show over the sea.

At noon, Team Osprey, aerobatic display team will fly in from Swansea and treat spectators to a spectacular air display.

The team is the only formation display team in the UK equipped with the Russian Yak 52 fighter trainer.

Part of the display involves flying towards the ground at 200mph from about 1,500 feet and only about 10 feet apart from each other.

Tomorrow (Saturday)at 10.30am, there will be remote controlled model aeroplane flying displays by Haverfordwest Model Aeroplane Flying Club in the Sports Field, Goodwick.

There will also be remote controlled aeroplane flying simulators to try, and a static display by Brian Barnes and team.