Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson lands at Duxford Air Show

The Duxford Air Show gets underway this weekend with 30,000 people expected to visit the event.

It marks the centenary of the First World War.

Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of heavy-metal band Iron Maiden, will be swapping the stage for the cockpit, as he takes to the skies in the museums annual Air Show.

The singer will be flying his replica First World War Fokker Dr1 triplane, as part of the Great War Display team, recreating a First World War dogfight.

Dickinson said: 'The idea is to put nine airplanes in a very close bit of sky, and try and recreate an idea of what it might have looked and sounded like.'

The event, which will be held on September 13th and 14th, features forty aircrafts from different decades.