Guest: Graham Bethell Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of October 2024 Published: 21st of October 2024 Duration: 53 minutes, 58 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with well known Mustang pilot Graham Bethell about his life in aviation. Graham’s father flew fighters in the RNZN with the Fleet Air Arm in WWII, and Graham [...]

Guest: Andrew “Stewie” Stewart and Nicola “Nix” Brooke-Stewart Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 11th of October 2024 Published: 12th of October 2024 Duration:  1 hour, 56 minutes, 29 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Andrew “Stewie” Stewart and Nicole “Nix” Brooke-Stewart, husband and wife team who are both NH-90 helicopter pilots with No. 3 Squadron RNZAF. [...]

Guest: Air Commodore David Harrison RAF, retired. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of October 2024 Published: 4th of October 2024 Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 19 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with David Harrison, who currently works for the New Zealand Civil Aviation Administration, but he started his aviation career in the University [...]

Guest: Group Captain Roger Selwyn Holdaway Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of May 2024 Published: 8th of September 2024 Duration:  2 hours, 4 minutes, 13 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Roger Holdaway, a former RNZAF pilot who flew numerous types from the North American Harvard and de Havilland Devon to the Short Sunderland and the [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Barry ‘Patch’ Nelson RNZAFHost: Dave HomewoodRecorded: 28th of April 2024Released:  2024Duration:  1 hour 8 mins 19 secs This episode is the fifth and last of the recordings from the Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. [...]

Guest: Don WilkieHost: Dave HomewoodRecorded: 28th of April 2024Released:  14th of August 2024Duration:  47 mins 56 secs This episode is the fourth of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. Aviation artist Don Wilkie [...]

Guest: Tom WilliamsHost: Dave HomewoodRecorded: 28th of April 2024Released: 9th of June 2024Duration: 27 mins 36 secs This episode is the third of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. Tom [...]

Guest: Stephen Davies HowardHost: Dave HomewoodRecorded: 28th of April 2024Released: 1st of June 2024Duration: 1 hour 2 mins 37 secs This episode is the second of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of [...]

Guest: Bevan Dewes of Legend AviationHost: Dave HomewoodRecorded: 28th of April 2024Released:  25th of May 2024Duration:  32 mins 19 secs This episode is the first of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet. This was a gathering of members of the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell [...]

Guest: Roy Boston – de Havilland Apprentice and Engineer, and RNZAF Instructor Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of April 2024 Released:  30th of April 2024 Duration:  1 hour 34 minutes 45 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 96-year-old Roy Boston, who was born and grew up in London, and became an apprentice at the de [...]

Guests: Larry Hill, Andrew White and Tony Hoskins Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of March 2024 Published: 24th of March 2024 Duration: 2 hours, 57 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood marks the 80th Anniversary of The Great Escape by talking with Larry Hill, Andy White and Tony Hoskins. The Great Escape is the name given to a breakout [...]

Guest: Sarah Carr (nee Hanna) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of July 2023 Published: 8th of March 2024 Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes, 5 seconds In this episode of Wings Over Britain, Dave Homewood sat down with Sarah Carr of the Old Flying Machine Company, in her office at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Sarah is the daughter of the [...]

Guest: Ed Taylor, General Manager of Warbirds Over Wanaka Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of March 2024 Released: 4th of March 2024 Duration: 45 minutes 17 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Ed Taylor about the upcoming three-day Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow over Easter on March 29th, 30th and 31st. The airshow [...]

Guest: Brendon Deere Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of February 2024 Published: 2nd of March 2024 Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes, 28 seconds In this 300th episode in the Wings Over New Zealand Show series, Dave Homewood talks with Brendon Deere of the Biggin Hill Trust about the beautiful restoration on his ex-RNZAF North American P-51D Mustang NZ2423 (ZK-BHT). The [...]

Guests: Arthur Joplin (No. 617 Squadron pilot) and Ron Mayhill (No. 75 (NZ) Squadron bomb aimer), with Peter Wheeler of the New Zealand Bomber Command Association. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of August 2013 Published: 26th of February 2024 Duration: 40 minutes, 46 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood dips into his archive and pulls out a 2013 recording [...]

Guest: Denis Sharp and Jim Cosgrove Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of July 2023 Published: 18th of February 2024 Duration: 1 hour minutes, seconds In this episode of Wings Over Britain Dave Homewood is given a guided tour of the remains of former RAF Hunsdon by local historians Denis Sharp and Jim Cosgrove on a drizzly day. Hunsdon was a [...]

Guest: Jason Webb Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of July 2023 Published: 15th of February 2024 Duration: 16 minutes, 31 seconds In this mini-episode of Wings Over Britain Dave Homewood meets Jason Webb at the Bottisham Airfield Museum, at former RAF Bottisham in Cambridgeshire. The museum presents the history of the wartime station, which has now reverted back to countryside, including [...]

Guest: Rebecca Greenwood Harding Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of July 2023 Published: 6th of February 2024 Duration: 33 minutes, 15 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visited the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, and caught up with Rebecca Greenwood Harding, the Head of Technological Objects for the collection there. Following a tour of the museum with Rebecca [...]

Guest: Tony Philpot Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of July 2023 Published: 19th of January 2024 Duration: 50 minutes, 8 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits the RAF Hornchurch Heritage Centre, on the site of the former RAF Station Hornchurch, and he talks with the museum’s chairman Tony Philpot. RAF Hornchurch is synonymous with the Battle of [...]

Guest: Stephen Bridgewater Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of July 2023 Published: 20th of December 2023 Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes, 9 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with well known aviation journalist Steve Bridgewater about his career and his passion for aviation. Steve is a multiple award winning aviation author, journalist and photographer [...]

Guest: Fletcher McKenzie Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of October 2023 Published: 14th of December 2023 Duration: 59 minutes, 46 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Fletcher McKenzie, an entrepreneur and former advertising executive who turned his hand to television and, with Malcolm Clement, produced the very popular FlightPath TV, which was seen in 61 countries around the [...]

Guest: Andy Saunders Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of July 2023 Published: 10th of December 2023 Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes, 14 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood caught up with author, journalist and historian Andy Saunders in his ‘War Office’ writing room in Eton, under the flightpath to Heathrow. Andy talks about his childhood [...]

Guest: Darren Priday, Manager of the RAF Museum’s Conservation Centre Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 11th of July 2023 Published: 18th of November 2023 Duration: 46 minutes, 39 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visited the terrific Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, at RAF Cosford, with friend Nigel Hitchman, and he met the Manager of the RAF Museum’s [...]

Guests: Tracy Dixon, Airside Manager for Wings Over Wairarapa 2023 Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of November 2023 Published: 14th of November 2023 Duration: 21 minutes, 28 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood speaks with Tracy Dixon, the Airside Manager for the Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival, which will take place over the 24th to 26th of November 2023 [...]

Guests: Ian Thirsk, Mosquito Team Leader Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 7th of July 2023 Published: 11th of November 2023 Duration: 53 minutes, 09 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits the de Havilland Aircraft Museum at London Colney, Hertfordshire, and he interviews Ian Thirsk, the Mosquito Team Leader with the museum. Whilst the museum preserves the history and products [...]

Guest: Julian Maslin, BBMF Guide. Host: Dave Homewood, with Barbara Hunter. Recorded: 6th of July 2023 Published: 3rd of November 2023 Duration: 1 hour, 4 minutes, 27 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. He was accompanied by Barbara Hunter of the New Zealand Bomber Command Association, and [...]

Guests: David Gledhill, Author and Aviator Host: Dave Homewood, and also heard are Dave’s hosts in Woodhall Spa, Ken White and Barbara Hunter. Recorded: 6th of July 2023 Published: 29th of October 2023 Duration: 41 minutes, 52 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits former RAF navigator and author Dave Gledhill at Thorpe Camp, Lincolnshire. Dave owns [...]

Guests: Dr. Dan Ellin and Peter Jones Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 5th of July 2023 Published: 6th of October 2023 Duration: 50 minutes, 5 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visited the International Bomber Command Centre, where he met Dr. Dan Ellin, of the University of Lincoln, who is the archivist for the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. [...]

Guests: John Marshal-East and Andrew Panton Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of July 2023 Published: 29th of September 2023 Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes, 34 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visited the former RAF Station at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, home of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre. This museum is famous for its taxiing Avro Lancaster NX611 Just [...]

Guest: Grace Hills Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 5th of September 2023 Published: 23rd of September 2023 Duration: 35 minutes, 26 seconds Dave Homewood talks with Grace Hills in this episode to mark the annual international Girls In Aviation Day! Grace is an aircraft technician in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and she is also a private pilot. [...]

Guests: Darren Harbar, Steve Darlow, George Dunn DFC and David Bremner Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st and 2nd of July 2023 Published: 16th of September 2023 Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes, 20 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood met with several friends at the hallowed ground that is Old Warden aerodrome, the home of the world famous Shuttleworth Collection. He [...]

Guest: Flt Lt David Barnston, RAF/RNZAF retired Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2023 Published: 10th of September 2023 Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes, 47 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 99-year old fighter pilot veteran David Barnston, who was born in London, and went to school next to RAF Hendon as a lad. He joined [...]

This is an introduction to the new series Warbird Radio Downunder which starts today on the Warbird Radio Network. The Jolley Company, LLC|9/8/2023 WARBIRD RADIO – The Wings Over New Zealand Show LIVE host Dave Homewood is back on Warbird Radio, with a similar show but the new name is Warbird Radio Downunder. He and occasional co-host Grant [...]

Guest: Tony Hoskins Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2023 Published: 20th of August 2023 Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes, 38 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Tony Hoskins who is leading the team who are restoring Supermarine Spitfire PR.IV AA810, known as Sandy’s Spitfire. This Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Spitfire was flown by Flight Lieutenant [...]

Guest:  David Morris, Principle Conservator at the Fleet Air Arm Museum Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of June 2023 Published: 15th of August 2023 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes, 31 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits The Fleet Air Arm Museum, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, at Yeovilton in Somerset. There [...]

Guests: Dave Cole and Margaret Wilmot Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2023 Duration: 1 hour 41 minute 46 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Dave Cole, a guide and local historian at the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum, at former RAF Biggin Hill. Dave talks about the fascinating history of the famous [...]

Guests:  Andrew Lewis and Allan Winn Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of June 2023 Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 13 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Andrew Lewis and Allan Winn at the Brooklands Museum, at Weybridge, Surrey, in England. Brooklands was the home of British motor racing, and also the home of Vickers Weybridge, a [...]

Guests:  Lee Howard and Rob Jones Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of June 2023 Duration: 57 minutes In this episode Dave Homewood talks with naval aviation historian Lee Howard and Navy Wings’ marketing manager Rob Jones during a walk around the Navy Wings hangar at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, in Somerset. Aircraft in the hangar included two Fairey Swordfish (one [...]

Guest:  Flight Lieutenant Alan Ross Boyens, RAF (Retired) Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of June 2023 Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes, 30 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Ross Boyens, a New Zealander who joined the Royal Air Force in 1972. Following his initial officer training at Wigram with the RNZAF, he then went off to [...]

Guest:  Lewis James Day, MNZM, DFC Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 11th of June 2023 Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes, 12 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks via Zoom with Lew Day, who was just five weeks away from turning 100 at the time of the recording, and Lew’s son Brian Day was also sitting in to help [...]

Guest: Group Captain Jason Easthope, RAAF Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 16th of May 2023 Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes, 41 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks via Zoom with Group Captain Jason Easthope, RAAF. Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, Easty became inspired by a visit of the RNZAF Strikemasters to Rotorua, and an airshow [...]

Guest:  Bevan Dewes Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of April 2023 Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes, 54 seconds In this episode we welcome back Bevan Dewes to the WONZ Show to discuss the restoration and return to flight of his award winning North American Aviation Harvard Mk. IIA NZ1044, aka ZK-OTU. Bevan purchased the aircraft in [...]

Guest: Gavin Conroy Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of April 2023 Duration: 40 minutes, 32 seconds The Yealands Classic Fighters 2023 Airshow kicks off this week on Good Friday at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim. In this episode Dave Homewood talks with the Airshow Director, Gavin Conroy. Gavin gives a preview of what to expect at [...]

Guest:  James Kightly Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of February 2023 Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes, seconds James Kightly of Australia joins Dave via Zoom to discuss the plans for the upcoming Wings Over Britain tour that Dave is undertaking later this year in late June and through July 2023. They discuss some of the [...]

Guest: Captain Walter Steward (retired), RNZA, Air OP pilot, known as Wally. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of October 2022 Released:  27th of January2023 Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes 46 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood speaks via Zoom with Captain Wally Steward, who was an officer with the Royal New Zealand Artillery, in the New Zealand. [...]

Guests: Wing Commander Blair Oldershaw, No. 40 Squadron CommanderFlight Sergeant Dave Wood, Air Load Master InstructorFlight Sergeant Robyn Claffey, Flight Engineer InstructorWarrant Officer Darryn “Durry” Wells, Maintenance Warrant Officer Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 16th of November 2022 Released: 23rd of December 2020 Duration:  51 minutes 45 seconds In this episode of the WONZ Show, Dave Homewood visits No. 40 [...]

Guests: Wing Commander Glen Donaldson, Commanding Officer of No. 5 SquadronFlight Sergeant Tony Strugnell, Flight EngineerSquadron Leader Paul Barrett, MFC, Flight Engineer, Engineer OfficerFlight Lieutenant Tom Peterson, PilotFlying Officer Holly Graham – Air Warfare OfficerCorporal Nikita Crookbain – Air Warfare Specialist Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 16th of November 2022 Released:  12th of December 2022 Duration: 1 hour 17 [...]

Guest: Brett Emeny Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 24th of November 2022 Released:  30th of November 2022 Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 14 seconds November 2022 marks 50 years since the RNZAF’s de Havilland Vampire fleet retired from service. The Air Force operated 58 Vampires within New Zealand, and at least 44 more leased Vampires in Cyprus and Singapore. [...]

Guest: Air Commodore James Barclay AFC, RNZAF (retired) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of September 2022 Released:  25th of November 2022 Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 11 seconds November 2022 marks 50 years since the RNZAF’s de Havilland Vampire fleet retired from service. The Air Force operated 58 Vampires within New Zealand, and at least 44 more leased [...]

Guest: Maynard Roger Hawkins, known as Mayn. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 21st of July 2022 Released:  18th of November 2022 Duration: 1 hour minutes seconds November 2022 marks 50 years since the RNZAF’s de Havilland Vampire fleet retired from service. The Air Force operated 58 Vampires within New Zealand, and at least 44 more leased Vampires in Cyprus [...]

Guest: Flight Lieutenant David James Greenlees 71637 (5 May 1929 – 13 August 2022) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 21st of July 2022 Released:  11th of November 2022 Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 40 seconds November 2022 marks 50 years since the RNZAF’s de Havilland Vampire fleet retired from service. The Air Force operated 58 Vampires within New Zealand, [...]

Guest: Graham Edward “Tommy” Thompson Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 22nd of July 2022 Released:  4th of November 2022 Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 44 seconds November 2022 marks 50 years since the RNZAF’s de Havilland Vampire fleet retired from service. The Air Force operated 58 Vampires within New Zealand, and at least 44 more leased Vampires in Cyprus [...]

Guest: Tracy Dixon, Ed Taylor, Gavin Conroy and Frank Parker Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of October 2022 Released:  20th of October 2022 Duration: 53 minutes 56 seconds In this episode of the WONZ Show, Dave Homewood chats with four of the key people behind New Zealand’s biggest airshows, Tracy Dixon (Wings Over Wairarapa), Ed Taylor (Warbirds Over Wanaka), [...]

Guest: David Fairhead Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of August 2022 Released:  30th of August 2022 Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 30 seconds In this episode of the WONZ Show, Dave Homewood chats with British filmmaker David Fairhead, who was the director, producer, editor and main interviewer behind the new feature film ‘Lancaster’ which opens in selected New [...]

Guest: David Stanley Cohu (8 June 1924 – 17 July 2018) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of October 2015 Released: 17th of July 2022 Duration: 2 hour 14 minutes 18 seconds In this episode of the WONZ Show, Dave Homewood pulled an older interview from his archive that he recorded in 2015 with former pilot, [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Larry Olsen AFC Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of May 2022 Released:  15th of May 2022 Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 17 seconds Today as this episode is released it is exactly 50 years to the day since the first flight of the first Royal New Zealand Air Force BAC167 Strikemaster Mk. 88, NZ6361. It [...]

Guest: Sean Singleton-Turner Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of April 2022 Released:  22nd of April 2022 Duration: 41 minutes 19 seconds This episode is the fifth in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations. In this episode we hear from Sean Singleton-Turner about his ejection from RNZAF [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Michael Williams Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 7th of April 2022 Released: 7th of April 2022 Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 36 seconds The Air Force Heritage Flight is the newest unit of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and in this episode we hear from its Flight Commander, Squadron Leader Mike Williams. [...]

Guests: Don Simms Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of February 2022 Released:  2nd of April 2022 Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 52 seconds Don Simms, who has appeared on the show several times, has had a fascination with the 1982 Falklands War since he was a teenager when the war erupted. And he is particularly interested in the [...]

Guest: Cris George Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2022 Released:  11th of March 2022 Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 51 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with former Naval Aviator Cris George. Cris served in the Royal New Zealand Navy from 1966 till 1978. During that time he attended 771 Wings course at Wigram, and [...]

Guests: Alan Thoresen and Owen ‘OJ’ Jones Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of February 2022 Released:  3rd of March 2022 Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 54 seconds In this episode, to mark 50 years since the first flight, Dave Homewood talks with Alan Thoresen and Owen Jones about their memories of working on the team the built the [...]

Guests: Geoff “Polly” Polglase, Evan Allen and Terry “Gnome” Austin Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of October 2021 Released:  7th of February 2022 Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 20 seconds This episode is the fourth in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations. This episode is a [...]

Guest: Max Speedy Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of December 2021 Released: 14th of January 2022 Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 11 seconds This is the third and likely final interview with Max Speedy. Born in Levin, New Zealand in 1944, Max moved with his family to Australia when he was five years old. He joined the Royal Australian [...]

Guest: Max Speedy Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of November 2021 Released:  28th of December 2021 Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 56 seconds In this episode, Royal Australian Navy Vietnam veteran and historian Max Speedy starts off by giving an overview of the background history of the Vietnam War, and how the Australian and New Zealand forces ended [...]

Guests: Max Speedy, Marty Irons, and the late Geoffrey Fisken Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 22nd of Nov 2021 (Max Speedy, and Marty Irons) and 16th of Sept 2009 (Geoff Fisken) Released: 7th of December 2021 Duration: 2 hours 51 minutes 47 seconds This special episode is a three-part special commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Pacific War. On the [...]

Guest: Phillip Barnes, aka Barnsey Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of October 2021 Released:  5th of November 2021 Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds This episode is the third in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations. In this episode Phil Barnes tells the story of his ejection [...]

Guest: Peter Lindsay Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of September 2021 Released:  29th of October 2021 Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds This episode is the second in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations. In this episode Pete Lindsay tells the story of his incredible ejection [...]

Guest: Air Commodore Geoffrey Hubbard OBE, RNZAF Retired Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of October 2021 Released:  22nd of October 2021 Duration: 53 minutes 27 seconds This episode is the first in a series called “Great Escapes”, which will delve into some intense stories of pilots, aircrew or passengers finding themselves in grave danger in the air, and [...]

Guest Speaker: Denys Jones Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2016 Released: 17th of October 2021 Duration: 46 minutes 43 seconds This episode is a recording of a fantastic talk given by Denys Jones of Ferrymead Aeronautical Society in Christchurch at a Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum [...]

Guest: Cornelius James “Jim” Sheddan DFC, NZ412358 (3 March 1918-9 December 2010) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of January 2010 Released:  17th of September 2021 Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 11 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood spoke with the RNZAF fighter ace Jim Sheddan in 2010. Jim was originally posted to No. 485 (NZ) Squadron on Spitfires [...]

Guest: Sydney Arthur Vincent (1924-2011) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of December 2009 Released:  3rd of September 2021 Duration:  38 minutes 58 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood has dipped into the archive and pulled out one of his early interviews, with the late Syd Vincent. At the time Syd was the President of the Fleet Air [...]

Guest: John Lamont Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of July 2021 Released:  20th of August 2021 Duration:  1 hour 23 minutes 57 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood caught up with well known and respected airshow pilot John Lamont, while they were both visiting Ardmore Airport. As a child, John lived next to the Omaka Aerodrome and he [...]

Guests: Captain Neville Hay and Peter Allen Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of July 2021 Released: 6th of August 2021 Duration: 2 hours 32 minutes 35 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood interviews former TEAL and Air New Zealand aircrew members Captain Neville Hay and Peter Allen, inside the Boeing 747-200 simulator that is housed at MOTAT, the Museum [...]

Guest: Aidan Cartwright, Gareth Cartwright, Scott Montagu, Derek Shipley and Ian ‘Iggy’ Wood. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 10th and 24th of July 2021 Released: 24th of July 2021 Duration:  1 hour 9 minutes 48 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood spent a couple of days, two weeks apart, at Waharoa Aerodrome, Matamata, with members of the Piako Gliding Club. [...]

Guest: Paul McSweeny of Pioneer Aero Ltd. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of July 2021 Released: 18th of July 2021 Duration:  16 minutes 32 seconds In this special mini-episode Dave Homewood does a walk-around the hangar with Paul McSweeny of Pioneer Aero Ltd., to give an update on all the projects currently happening and one one its [...]

Guest: The late Andy Higgins(Andrew William Higgins – 13 September 1931 to 2 January 2020) Host: Dave Homewood with Nigel Godfrey Recorded: 19th of July 2019 Released: 28th of June 2021 Duration:  51 minutes 15 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood and Nigel Godfrey sat down with Andy Higgins to record what he remembered about his days working [...]

Guest: Jack Godfrey (1931-2019), with Jack’s son Nigel Godfrey Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 10th of October 2021 Released: 3rd of June 2021 Duration:  1 hour 27 minutes 22 seconds Dave Homewood sat down with the well known and respected modeller and aircraft builder Jack Godfrey in October 2019. Jack talks about growing up in Auckland and the Hawkes [...]

Guest: NZ Warbirds President Frank Parker Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of April 2021 Released: 11th of May 2021 Duration:  43 minutes 04 seconds On the 25th of April 1941, the very first North American Harvard to fly in New Zealand, NZ901, took off on its initial test flight following assembly at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. The Harvard would [...]

Guests: John ‘JK’ Kelly, Peter Layne and Gavin Trethewey Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of April 2021 Released: 2nd of May 2021 Duration:  55 minutes 49 seconds On the 25th of April 1941, the very first North American Harvard to fly in New Zealand, NZ901, took off on its initial test flight following assembly at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. [...]

Guests: Nick Sheehan and Keith Skilling Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of April 2021 Released: 26th of April 2021 Duration:  47 minutes 28 seconds On the 25th of April 1941, the very first North American Harvard to fly in New Zealand, NZ901, took off on its initial test flight following assembly at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. The Harvard would [...]

Guest: The late Malcolm Graham Campbell (5 Oct 1934 – 27 Nov 2020) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of April 2013 Released: 14th of March 2021 Duration:  57 minutes 50 seconds In this tribute episode Dave Homewood releases an old interview he did with the late Malcolm Campbell, who was well known as a pilot, airline founder and [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Bob Henderson, RNZAF, retired Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 5th of January 2021 Released: 17th of January 2021 Duration:  1 hour 45 minutes 33 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with former RNZAF Wing Commander Bob Henderson, who was the Commanding Officer of No. 40 Squadron RNZAF from 1989-1993. Bob discusses his Royal New Zealand [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Alan Harrison, retired Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 9th of February 2019 Released: 8th of January 2021 Duration:  1 hour 21 minutes 32 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Alan Harrison about his service in the Royal Air Force through the 1960’s, 1970’s and early 1980’s. Alan trained and served initially as an Air [...]

Guest: Harley Cadwallader Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of October 2020 Released: 8th of December 2020 Duration:  1 hour 5 minutes 30 seconds Harley Cadwallader was a career topdressing and spray pilot. He learned to fly at his home airfield of Masterton with the Wairarapa Aero Club, on Tiger Moths. He started in the agricultural aviation industry as [...]

Guest: Karl Kjarsgaard Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of September 2020 Released: October 2020 Duration:  1 hour 18 minutes 23 seconds In a slightly different topic from the usual WONZ Show in this episode Dave Homewood talks with Karl Kjarsgaard of Canada about his efforts to ensure the Handley Page Halifax bomber is not forgotten by Canadians, [...]

Guests: Alistair Marshall, and Rodney Dahlberg Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: Al recorded 10th of September 2020, Rod recorded 13th of August 2018 Released: 24th of September 2020 Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 15 seconds In this “MOSQUITO SPECIAL” episode Dave Homewood talks again with Al Marshall, the team leader of the exciting current move of [...]

Guests: Alistair Marshall, and Sidney Arthur “Tony” Williams Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: Al recorded 10th of September 2020, Tony recorded 8th of August 2018 Released: 11th of September 2020 Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 29 seconds In this “MOSQUITO SPECIAL” episode Dave Homewood talks first with Al Marshall, the team leader of the exciting current move of the world famous [...]

Guest: NZ44090 Aircraftman Clifford Noel Taylor, Aircrafthand (Tech) Host: Dave Homewood, with Gary McGuire Recorded: 19th of November 2019 Released: 27th of August 2020 Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 29 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood and Gary McGuire have a chat with WWII veteran Cliff Taylor of Pukekohe. Cliff was born in Palmerston North, and grew up in [...]

Guest: Lou Larsen Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of December 2019 Released: 18th of July 2020 Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 43 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood sits down with Lou Larsen, the adopted son of the late Rukuhia scrap dealer Jim Larsen. The Larsen family owned the aluminium smelting business situated on the [...]

Guest: WWII veteran Cpl John Lawrence Ernest Hamlet (known as Laurie), NZ416754, RNZAF Instrument Repairer Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of November 2019 Released: 5th of July 2020 Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 24 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Laurie Hamlet, who was born and grew up in Auckland. Before the war he was apprenticed [...]

Guests: Ian Slater, Cameron Wallace, Graham Allan and Martin Oldfield Host: Dave Homewood Recorded:  7th of June 2020 (6th of June 2020 in Canada) Released: 7th of June 2020 Duration:  1 hour 6 minutes 26 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood catches up with Ian Slater of Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd in Canada and gets an update [...]

Guest Speakers: Mike Nicholls, James Kightly and Charles Davis Host: Dave Homewood, with Technical Support from Phil Treweek Recorded:  17th of May 2020 Released: 1st of June 2020 Duration:  1 hour 47 minutes 1 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood hosts the first ever WONZ Virtual Forum Meet, via Zoom, as a result of the Covid 19 [...]

Guest: Edward Leaf, Air Gunner Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of December 2019 Released: 2nd of May 2020 Duration:  53 minutes 24 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with WWII Air Gunner Eddie Leaf, who served with the Royal Air Force in Vickers Wellingtons, Short Stirlings, Handley Page Halifax and Avro Lancasters. Eddie was born in the UK but [...]

Guest: Neville Worsley Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 9th of February 2020 Released: 17th of April 2020 Duration:  51 minutes 4 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with longtime pilot Neville Worsley about his long career in flying as a commercial pilot in aerial topdressing and tourist flying, and his hobby as a recreational pilot and sport flyer. [...]

Speakers: Dave Starr, Gavin McIvor and Des Gyde Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 8th of December 2019 Released: 3rd of April 2020 Duration:  1 hour 34 minutes 19 seconds This episode features presentations made in front of a live audience at the 2019 Wings Over New Zealand Christmas Party, held at Te Kowhai Aerodrome, Hamilton. The speakers are: Dave [...]

Guest: Lucy Newell Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of February 2020 Released: 29th of March 2020 Duration:  51 minutes 44 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Lucy Newell, a young Kiwi commercial pilot who is currently bush flying in Ontario, Canada. She is piloting Cessna Caravans off gravel strips and floatplane DHC-2 Beavers off lakes. Lucy began flying [...]

Guest: Ian Munro Sexton, WWII RNZAF Radar Mechanic, then Pilot (Ham Radio Call Sign ZL1PZ) Host: Dave Homewood Also Sitting In: Bevan Dewes and Paul Radley Recorded: 16th of March 2020 Released: 27th of March 2020 Duration:  1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood sits down 99 year old veteran Ian Sexton, who served as a [...]

Guests: Aaron Pearce, Aaron Patchett, and Fletcher McKenzie Host: Dave Homewood Insert: Grant McHerron and Doug Hamilton Recorded: 5th of February 2020 Released:  6th of February 2020 Duration:  1 hour 43 minutes 40 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood is joined by Aaron Pearce, Aaron Patchett, and Fletcher McKenzie in this semi-regular The Forum episode. Aaron [...]

Guest: Charles Darby Hosts: Dave Homewood, Bevan Dewes Recorded: 19th of August 2019 Released:  31st of January 2020 Duration:  1 hour 3 minutes 47 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood and Bevan Dewes sat down with the legendary Charles Darby at his home in Auckland. Charles has always had a passion for historical aviation since he was a [...]

Guest: F/Lt Malcolm Flack RAF, RNZAF (retired) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of December 2019 Released:  19th of January 2020 Duration:  47 minutes 20 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood climbed into the cockpit of the Handley Page Hastings in the workshop of MOTAT – the Museum of Transport and Technology – in Auckland with 97-year-old Malcolm Flack, [...]

Main Speaker: Nathan “Barf” Bosher Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released:  12th of January 2020 Duration:  46 minutes 05 seconds In this final talk given at the 2019 Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch, the museum’s resident Safety And Surface Technician Nathan “Barf” Bosher [...]

Main Speaker: Barry Lennox Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released:  4th of January 2020 Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 14 seconds In this talk given at the 2019 Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch, Barry Lennox gives a fascinating and very technical history of the design [...]

Main Speaker: Squadron Leader Paul Harrison (RNZAF, rtd) Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released:  1st of January 2020 Duration: 56 minutes 13 seconds In this talk given at the 2019 Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch, S/Ldr Paul Harrison talks about his long and [...]

Main Speaker: Alexander Liggett Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released: 5th of December 2019 Duration: 38 minutes 3 seconds In this talk given by Alex Liggett, President of Ferrymead Aeronautical Society, at the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch, we hear about the de Havilland [...]

Main Speaker: Warrant Officer Keith “Buck” Harrison, RNZAF Retired Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released: 31st of October 2019 Duration: 51 minutes 51 seconds This is the third episode from the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch. We hear a talk given by Buck Harrison who joined [...]

Guests: Loretta McGarry, Bob McGarry, Amanda Rutland, Jim Lawson and Keith Skilling Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of October 2019 Released: 25th of October 2019 Duration: 56 minutes 43 seconds On the weekend of the 18th to the 20th of October 2019 the Tiger Moth Club of New Zealand held a special commemorative Fly-In at Taumarunui Aerodrome, in the heart [...]

Main Speaker: Andrew Love Other Speaker: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released: 11th of October 2019 Duration: 35 minutes 19 seconds This is the second episode from the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch. We hear a talk given by Andy Love about aerobatics. Andy is a pilot and [...]

Main Speaker: Louisa Hormann, Archives Technician at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand Other Speakers: Dave Homewood and W/C Brett Marshall Recorded: 1st of September 2019 Released: 25th of September 2019 Duration: 39 minutes 50 seconds This is the first episode from the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch. [...]

Main Speaker: Des Underwood Other Speakers: Jack Best (Introducing the event), Greg Brownless (Mayor of Tauranga) Recorded: 6th of September 2019 Released: 15th of September 2019 Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 52 seconds In this episode we hear a recording from the Fourth Annual Jean Batten Lecture, presented by Des Underwood to the Bay of Plenty Branch of the [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Brett Marshall RNZAF, Director of the Air Force Museum of New Zealand Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of September 2019 Released: 5th of September 2019 Duration: 41 minutes 20 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood sits down with Wing Commander Brett Marshall, RNZAF, who was recently appointed to the role of Director of the [...]

Guest: Warren Denholm of Avspecs Ltd, aka Wal Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of August 2019 Released: 24th of August 2019 Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits Wal Denholm in his office at Avspecs Ltd., the Ardmore-based warbird restoration company, to discuss the restoration and recent success with de Havilland Mosquito FB.6 PZ474. This [...]

Guest: Nevill ClarkeF/Lt William Paul Nevill Clarke, AFC, (cvsa). (5 Nov 1921 – 22 Aug 2019) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of February 2019 Released: 6th of August 2019 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 27 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood and Bevan Dewes visited 97-year-old veteran RNZAF pilot Nevill Clarke at his retirement village home in Northcote. Nevill was [...]

Guest: John Hansen Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 16th of June 2019 Released: 24th of July 2019 Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 35 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood sat down with aeronautical engineer and recreational pilot John Hansen, in his hangar at his private strip at Pokuru. John talks about his life in aviation, from watching the topdressers as a kid [...]

Guest: Bevan Dewes Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 8th of July 2019 Released: 10th of July 2019 Duration: 57 minutes 17 seconds The show is finally back after a long hiatus, and with our 200 Wings Over New Zealand Show. Host Dave Homewood is joined by one of his best friends, Bevan Dewes , who is [...]

Guest: Bill Rolfe Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of June 2013 Released: 19th of January 2019 Duration: 54 minutes 07 seconds To mark the return to flight of de Havilland Mosquito PZ474 (aka NZ2384, ZK-BCV and N9909F) on the 13th of January 2019, we have a special treat. Dave Homewood has pulled a fascinating and [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Chris Pote, RAF Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 7th of January 2019 Released: 11th of January 2019 Duration: 57 minutes 55 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Wing Commander Chris Pote, of the Royal Air Force, who recently in November and December 2018 made an epic flight in a Eurostar light sport aircraft all the way from Great Britain to New [...]

Guests: Bevan Dewes and Matt Austin Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of December 2018 Released: 23rd of December 2018 Duration:  2 hours 12 minutes 23 seconds This episode of the WONZ Show sees the return of the popular “The Forum” format where Dave talks with guests Bevan Dewes and Matt Austin in a panel style show. They discuss that [...]

Guests: Graeme Gleeson and Dick Ingham Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 8th of December 2018 Released: 14th of December 2018 Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 43 seconds This episode has the other two speakers at the recent WONZ Christmas Party 2018, which was held at the Fly DC3 Hangar at Ardmore Airport. This follows on from WONZ [...]

WWII Corsair pilot Alan Emett talks to a live audience about his wartime experiences [...]

Guest: John Denton Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of September 2018 Released: 23rd of November 2018 Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 43 seconds In this episode John Denton talks about his aviation experiences, from the days when he flew in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and later with Air New Zealand, and with New [...]

Speakers: Bruce Cooke (SAANZ Waikato and Bay of Plenty Chapter Secretary) Paula Moore (Flight Operations Team Leader, Recreational Aviation, NZ CAA) Doug Hamilton (Flight Operations Inspector, Recreational Aviation, NZ CAA) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of November 2018 Released: 6th of November 2018 Duration: 38 minutes 38 second In this episode we hear a live [...]

Guest: Denis Pothan Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 22nd of October 2018 Released: 23rd of October 2018 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 1 second In this episode Dave sat in the sunshine chatting with former RNZAF Safety and Surface Worker Denis Pothan, who called into Cambridge on his way home after attending the Safety and Surface [...]

Guest: Captain Geoff White Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 1st of October 2017 Released: 17th of October 2018 Duration: 1 hour 23 seconds In this episode we hear from Geoff White, who was a childhood friend of the legendary pilot Ray Hanna, serving together in the Air Training Corps during the 1940’s. Upon leaving school Geoff [...]

The Jean Batten Lecture 2018 – The History of National Airways Corporation of New Zealand Speakers: Des Underwood (Royal Aeronautical Society Bay of Plenty Branch Chairman) The Reverend Richard Waugh (Main speaker) Graham Lister (Royal Aeronautical Society Bay of Plenty Branch Committee Member) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of September 2018 Released: 15th of September [...]

Guest: Edward Francis “Ted” Edwards, NZZ412303, RAF 59653 11th of Sept 1917 – 20th of Jan 2014 Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of July 2012 Released: 7th of September 2018 Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds This episode is a 2012 interview with the late WWII and postwar pilot Ted Edwards. Dave Homewood met and interviewed [...]

Guest: NASA Research Pilots Dave Fedors and Paul Newton Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 10th of August 2018 Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds This episode features NASA Research Pilots Dave Fedors and Paul Newton speaking at the recent WONZ Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at [...]

Guest: Michelle Sim Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 3rd of August 2018 Duration: 37 minutes 49 seconds This episode features Michelle Sim, the sixth speaker at the recent WONZ Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at Wigram, Christchurch. Michelle is the Communications Manager at the Air [...]

Guest: Russell Brodie and Errol Martyn Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 27th of July 2018 Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 16 seconds This episode features the fourth and fifth speakers at the recent WONZ Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at Wigram, Christchurch. Russell Brodie of [...]

Guest: Barry Lennox Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 20th of July 2018 Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 21 seconds This is the third speaker at the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at Wigram, Christchurch. Barry Lennox worked part-time in the [...]

Guest: Flight Lieutenant Philip Stewart QSM, mid NZ404962, born 18th of October 1917 at Wanganui, aged 100 at the time of this talk Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 13th of July 2018 Duration: 42 minutes 37 seconds This is the second speaker at the recent Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet [...]

Guest: Bryan Cox Welcome From: Wing Commander Brett Marshall Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of June 2018 Released: 6th of July 2018 Duration: 53 minutes 20 seconds This is the first of the recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at Wigram in Christchurch, [...]

Guest: William John “Bill” Edhouse, NZ426311, Air Gunner, Royal New Zealand Air Force 16th of June 1922 – 28th of March 2017 Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of January 2010 Released: 16th of June 2018 Duration: 1 hour 51 minutes 35 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood interviewed the late Bill Edhouse, who was an [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2016 Released: 9th of June 2018 Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds This episode features a talk given by Matt Hayes about his and his brother Dan’s hunt for the missing Chance Vought F4U-1 Corsair NZ5517. The fighter-bomber vanished somewhere into the thick forested hill country of the West [...]

Guest: Michael “Mick” Murray, RNZAF Canberra Navigator Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 5th of March 2016 Released: 1st of June 2018 Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 2 seconds This episode features a talk given by Mick Murray at a WONZ Forum Meet in 2016 at the Subritzky family’s hangars. Mick was a Navigator on No. 14 [...]

Guest: Oswald John “Jack” Davis (RAF 1337768, Wireless Operator-Air Gunner,WWII, born 18 May 1921 at Castleton, Wales), plus Jack’s son Barry Davis, and Jack’s neighbour WWII RNZAF Wireless Mechanic Colin Brown. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 16th of of July 2012 Released: 27th of April 2018 Duration: 32 minutes 08 seconds This episode is a conversation [...]

Guest Speakers: Wings Commander Brett Marshall (Executive Officer at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand) Arthur Gatland (former Royal Air Force Hunter, Hawk and Harrier pilot, glider pilot, author and more Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of March 2018 Released: 15th of April 2018 Duration: 2 hour 2 minutes 13 seconds The Wings Over [...]

Guest Speakers: • Mike Feisst • Bryan Cox • Matt McLaughlin • Group Captain John Mathewson (retired) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of March 2018 Released: 13th of March 2018 Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 28 seconds The Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum held another successful and entertaining Forum Meet on the 4th of [...]

Guest Speakers: Andrew Gormlie (CEO, Classic Flyer NZ Museum) Des Underwood (former RNZAF Engineering Officer) Roger Dalziel (former RNZAF Grumman Avenger target tug pilot) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of March 2018 Released: 6th of March 2018 Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 20 seconds The Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum held another successful and [...]

Guest: Harold Raymond Kelsey (NZ4213900, Pilot Officer, Royal New Zealand Air Force) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of January 2018 Released: 27th of February 2018 Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 46 seconds This episode is a conversation with Harold Kelsey, who was an RNZAF Navigator during WWII. He served operationally on Grumman TBF-1c Avengers at [...]

Guest: Owen Rundle Hicks (NZ427777, Corporal, Royal New Zealand Air Force) 24 November 1921 – 7 July 2017 Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of May 2014 Released: 2nd of February 2018 Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 11 seconds Owen spent time in the Territorial Army in the early war years whilst working as an electrician [...]

Guests: Hugh Graham Findlater, NZ416969, RNZAF Pilot, WWII Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 19th of January 2018 Released: 26th of January 2018 Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds Hugh Findlater joined the RNZAF in 1941, and spent a period as an ACH (AMD), or Aircraft Hand (Aircraft Maintenance Duties), at RNZAF Station Taieri while he awaited his [...]

Guests: Steve Scott (Walsh Memorial Scout Flying School Chief Flying Instructor) John Hamilton (Walsh Memorial Scout Flying School Director) Rod Milne (Flying Instructor) Andrew “Simsy” Sims (Flying Instructor) Jeshneel Singh (Flying Instructor) David Jupp (Executive Officer) Janelle Rouse (Flying Instructor) Tessa Mowbray (Flying Instructor) Jack Boyd (Student, fourth year) Jakob Merson (Student, second year) Rachel [...]

Guests: Peter Waller Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 7th of April 2017 Released: 7th of January 2018 Duration: 48 minutes 31 seconds Peter Waller was an officer in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He learned to fly in the mid-1960’s on the North American Harvard, before progressing to the Vampire jet fighters of No. 75 [...]

Guest: Geoff Cooper, and John Denton Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of December 2017 Released: 15th of December 2017 Duration: 1 hour 48 seconds In the second and final recording from the recent WONZ Christmas Party we hear initially a short piece from Captain Geoff Cooper of Fly DC3 New Zealand giving his pre-flight briefing [...]

Guest: Paul McSweeny Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of December 2017 Released: 7th of December 2017 Duration: 36 minutes 22 seconds Paul McSweeny of Pioneer Aero Ltd was one of the guest speakers at the WONZ Christmas Party, held in the Fly DC3 New Zealand hangar at Ardmore Airport, Auckland, New Zealand. Paul talks about [...]

Guest: Kenneth Charles Lee, Squadron Leader NZ39924 and 75419, Royal New Zealand Air Force (25 September 1919 to 18th of January 2013) Interviewers: Dave Homewood and Richard Carstens Recorded: 19th of January 2010 Released: 24th of November 2017 Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds Ken Lee was studying engineering before WWII, and as he [...]

Guest: Charles Ernest Sharp, 157688, Flight Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, WWII (21 May 1920 to 11th of October 2011) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of July 2012 Released: 27th of October 2017 Duration: 54 minutes 25 seconds Charles Sharp joined the Royal Air Force in October 1939, though his training did not begin till late [...]

Guest: William Albert “Bill” Hilder, a.k.a. ‘Sandy’, 150046, Acting Sergeant, Royal Air Force (27 January 1923 to 14th of September 2011) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of December 2009 Released: 20th of October 2017 Duration: 33 minutes 59 seconds Bill Hilder joined the Royal Air Force in 1940 and trained as an Armourer. Following his [...]

Guest: Don Subritzky Host: Dave Homewood Introduced by: James Kightly Recorded: 29th of November 2015 Released: 13th of October 2017 Duration: 48 minutes 54 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with well known and much respected collector-restorer of old aeroplanes, Don Subritzky. The episode is introduced by aviation journalist James Kightly, as it was [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Sean Perrett Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 24th of August 2017 Released: 6th of October 2017 Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds In this episode Dave sits down with Squadron Leader Sean Perrett during a visit to the Central Flying School of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, at RNZAF Base Ohakea. Sean is [...]

Guest: Dee Bond, Mike Slack and Brett Nicholls Field Report Guest: Brendon Deere Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of September 2017 Released: 26th of September 2017 Duration: 2 hours 41 minutes 5 seconds In this episode three more aviators join Dave Homewood on The Forum panel to discuss news and views, and tell some great [...]

Guest: Christine Ody Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of June 2017 Released: 21st of September 2017 Duration: 1 hours 16 minutes 16 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with airline captain Christine Ody, of Auckland. Christine grew up on a farm in Northland, New Zealand. She developed a desire to fly from a young [...]

Guest: Matt McLaughlin Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of September 2017 Released: 15th of September 2017 Duration: 1 hours 6 minutes 16 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks via Skype with Matt McLaughlin, a Kiwi pilot who lives in Hong Kong. Matt grew up in Gisborne and he joined the Royal New Zealand Air [...]

Guest: David Duxbury Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of August 2017 Released: 9th of September 2017 Duration: 1 hours 37 minutes 8 seconds In Part Two of this Curtiss P-40 special, following on directly from Episode 159, aviation historian David Duxbury once again joins Dave Homewood to conclude this Duxbury Files story. Together they continue [...]

Sub-Series: The Duxbury Files Guest: David Duxbury Host: Dave Homewood Archive Voices: Geoff Fisken, Noel Hanna, Joe McVicar and Owen Hicks Recorded: 3rd of August 2017 Released: 1st of September 2017 Duration: 2 hours 18 seconds Aviation historian David Duxbury once again joins Dave Homewood on the WONZ Show for another in The Duxbury Files [...]

Guest: Arthur Gatland Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 21st of August 2017 Released: 26th of August 2017 Duration: 44 minutes 37 seconds Arthur Gatland is a pilot. His father Frank Gatland DFM mid was also a pilot. Frank joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1941 and following his flying training he became a Short [...]

Guest: Graeme Frew Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of August 2017 Released: 15th of August 2017 Duration: 36 minutes 1 second History is being made right now as the first ever New Zealand race team is on its way to the Reno Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada. Graeme Frew will be flying his Yakovlev [...]

Guests: Russell Brodie and Ross Brodie Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 10th of August 2017 Released: 11th of August 2017 Duration: 1 hour minutes seconds Russell Brodie and his son Ross Brodie join Dave via Skype from their home at Rangitata Island Aerodrome, near Geraldine in the South Island of New Zealand. The Brodies are a [...]

Panel Guests: Andrew Gormlie, Don Simms and Peter Rowley Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of August 2017 Released: 7th of August 2017 Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 02 seconds This is the second of our semi-regular “The Forum” show, featuring a panel of aviation minded folks discussing the latest news and views, projects and events, [...]

Guest: Stan Walker (F/O Stanley James Walker, RNZAF, NZ4214446, Pilot) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of June 2017 Released: 28th of July 2017 Duration: 2 hour 15 minutes 42 seconds Back on the 1st of April 2017, 95 year old Stan Walker was one of the speakers at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet [...]

Guest: Phillip Leech (Flight Lieutenant Phillip Winfield Leech, RAF, Navigator-Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 15th of July 2017 Released: 20th of July 2017 Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 43 seconds Phillip Leech was an English-born member of the Royal Air Force, but he served as a Navigator on the Coastal Command Bristol Beaufighter [...]

Speakers: Squadron Leader Jonathan Pote MBE, AE (Master of Ceremonies) Ron Mayhill DFC (New Zealand Bomber Command Association President) Group Captain Ants Hawes (RNZAF Chaplain) Flight Lieutenant Ken Diekema (RNZAF Chaplain) His Excellency Rob Zaagman (Ambassador to the Kingdom of The Netherlands) Master Aircrew Andrew Burrows (Royal Air Force) Pat Johnson (Area President of the [...]

Guest: Connie Bickford (Constance Elsie Bickford, Wartime WAAF 2003787, known as “Lucky”) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 9th of June 2017 Released: 7th of July 2017 Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 4 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 97-year-old WWII Women’s Auxiliary Air Force member Connie Bickford. Connie was a window dresser in London [...]

Panel Guests: Bruce Cooke, Alistair Marshall and Peter McQuarters Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of June 2017 Released: 30th of June 2017 Duration: 2 hours 37 minutes 2 seconds The Wings Over New Zealand Show has reached another milestone, our 150th episode! And to mark the occasion the show is trying a new format, a [...]

Guest: David Duxbury Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of May 2017 Released: 7th of June 2017 Duration: 59 minutes 23 second In the first of what is planned to become an occasional series that celebrates the history of our Air Force marking the RNZAF’s 80th year, eminent RNZAF historian David Duxbury of Christchurch joins Dave [...]

Guest: David Duxbury Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of May 2017 Released: 30th of May 2017 Duration: 31 minutes 1 second In a special and rather impromptu episode the Wings Over New Zealand Show marks 75 years to the day since the first “1000 Bomber Raid” was mounted by the Royal Air Force. The target [...]

Guest: George Barclay Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of June 2010 Released: 26th of May 2017 Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes 59 seconds George Barclay joined the Territorial Army on the 8th of May 1940. However he hated the Army lifestyle and in 1940 he volunteered to switch to the Royal New Zealand Air Force [...]

Guest: James Callister ‘Jim’ Richmond (10 January 1915 – 8 September 2013) Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 3rd of June 2010 Released: 19th of May 2017 Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds Jim Richmond was a Meteorologist in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War Two. He served at RNZAF Station Waipapakauri, with No. 7 [...]

Guest: Paul Brennan Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 11th of May 2017 Released: 12th of May 2017 Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 40 seconds Paul Brennan is a professional broadcaster, cameraman and media personality, who has taken on the task to run the “Bring Our Birds Home” campaign. This is an ambitious but doable plan to [...]

Guest: Barrie “Irv” Irvine Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of September 2016 Released: 28th of April 2017 Duration: 45 minutes 25 seconds In this episode, which was recorded live at the Te Atatu RSA Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at Auckland in September 2016, we hear from former RNZAF Sunderland and Orion pilot Barrie [...]

Guests: Squadron Leader Brett Clayton RNZAF (Falcon 1) Flight Lieutenant Dan Pezaro RNZAF (Falcon 2) Squadron Leader Hayden Sheard RNZAF (Falcon 4) Flight Lieutenant Mike Williams RNZAF (Falcon 6) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 14th of April 2017 Released: 20th of April 2017 Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds In this episode Dave managed to grab a [...]

Guest: Derrick Hubbard Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of October 2016 Released: 6th of April 2017 Duration: 57 minutes 40 seconds Derrick was born in England, and as a young man he joined the Royal Air Force as an engineer during WWII. He trained at RAF Halton and worked in the RAF for 10 years. [...]

Guests: Peter Mason, Peter Lewis, Warwick Jones, Cliff Hawley and Norm Sanson Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of September 2016 Released: 29th of March 2017 Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 29 seconds In this episode we hear some of the speakers who appeared at the WONZ Forum Meet at Te Atatu Memorial RSA, in Te [...]

Guest: Captain Michael Cater senior (retired) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of February 2017 Released: 23rd of March 2017 Duration: 2 hours 33 minutes 48 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with his good friend Captain Mike Cater, who served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force and then flew as an airline [...]

Guests: Julie Bubb, Neroli Henwood and Judy Costello Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of March 2017 Released: 19th of March 2017 Duration: 34 minutes 05 seconds In this episode, recorded in the open air at Te Kowhai Aerodrome, Hamilton, Dave Homewood talks with three ladies at a Fly In of the New Zealand Association of [...]

Guest: Edith Josephine “Josie” Miller (nee McGovern) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: July 2012 Released: 8th of March 2017 Duration: 1 hour 06 minutes 37 seconds In this episode Dave delves into the archives to present this great interview with Josie Miller, who was a member of New Zealand’s Womans Auxiliary Air Force during WWII. She [...]

Guest: Flight Lieutenant Alwynne ‘Bud’ Rose Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of September 2016 Released: 2nd of March 2017 Duration: 40 minutes 35 seconds In this episode, which was recorded live during the Te Atatu RSA WONZ Forum Meet, former RNZAF engineer and flight engineer Bud Rose talks about his career. He worked on the [...]

Guest: Frederic ‘Ric’ Martini Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of March 2016 Released: 22nd of February 2017 Duration: 46 minutes 29 seconds In this episode, which was recorded live during the March 2016 WONZ Forum Meet at the New Zealand Warbirds Association hangar at Ardmore, guest speaker Ric Martini tells the story of his father, [...]

Guest: Jack Marshall DFC (pff) Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of October 2016 Released: 17th of February 2017 Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds Jack Marshall was born in London in 1920, and moved to Napier, New Zealand in 1937, at the age of 17. He worked as a steward in a Gentleman’s Club, but when [...]

Guest: Don Simms Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2016 Released: 7th of February 2017 Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 52 seconds RNZAF Skyhawk historian and author Don Simms gave a fascinating presentation at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet held on the 30th of October 2016 at the Air Force Museum of [...]

Guest: Vic Jay Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 24th of January 2017 Released: 2nd of February 2017 Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Vic Jay, via Skype from England. Vic has recently released his book “The Mallon Crew” detailing his late father Bob Jay, an RAF Flight Engineer, [...]

Guest: Ron Reid (Warrant Officer Ronald James Reid NZ402821, RNZAF Pilot – 30/01/1918 to 02/03/2014) Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of November 2010 Released: 26th of January 2017 Duration: 59 minutes 37 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood interviewed the late WWII Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot Ron Reid, at his home in Tauranga [...]

Guest: Ross Brodie Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2016 Released: 19th of January 2017 Duration: 41 minutes 13 seconds Ross Brodie is an inspirational young aviator who is a fourth generation pilot, and grew up with aviation not only in his blood but all around him. He lives on the famous Brodie family [...]

Guest: Andrew Gormlie Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 13th of January 2017 Duration: 25 minutes 13 seconds With the first big New Zealand airshow of the year coming up, Dave talks with Andrew Gormlie of Classic Flyers Museum in Tauranga about their “Classics To The Sky 2017” airshow. This year’s event is subtitled “Strikemasters At Sunset” [...]

Guests: Bruce Cooke, Matt Austin and James Kightly Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of December 2016 Published: 18th of December 2016 Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 27 seconds In this special Dave and his guests Bruce, Matt and James celebrate both the Christmas season and the Wings Over New Zealand Show’s 5th Birthday. This episode [...]

Guest: Aviation artist Juanita Franzi Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 27th of November 2015 Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds In this final episode in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, Dave and James discuss aviation profile art with Juanita Franzi of Sydney. Juanita has a background in engineering and graphic design, and she is [...]

Guest: Terry Hetherington, Manager of the Australian Fleet Air Arm Museum Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 26th of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour  21 minutes 15 seconds In this penultimate episode in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, Dave and James visited the Fleet Air Arm Museum of Australia at HMAS Albatross, Nowra, south of Sydney. There they met with the [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Haydn Finbow Recorded: 11th of July 2016 Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 20 seconds Born and brought up in a small village in Suffolk, England, Haydn Finbow joined the Royal Air Force in 1941, with the desire of becoming a Spitfire pilot. In this episode Haydn details his journey through the [...]

Guests: Jim Thurstan, and Bob Delahunty Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 26th of November 2015 Duration: 59 minutes 35 seconds Dave Homewood and James Kightly continue the Wings Over Australia Tour with a visit to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society at Albion Park in Illawarra, New South Wales. They talk first with Jim [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Matthew O’Sullivan (Air Force Museum of New Zealand Keeper of Photographs), and Simon Moody (Air Force Museum of New Zealand Research Curator) Recorded: 28th of October 2016 Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 20 seconds This episode, which follows on from the previous show here, continues our look behind the scenes at [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Michelle Sim (Air Force Museum of New Zealand Communications Officer), and Nathan ‘Barf’ Bosher (Air Force Museum of New Zealand Safety and Surface Technician, in the Restoration Workshops) Recorded: 28th of October 2016 Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 29 seconds Quick Links: • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand Website [...]

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 24th of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 24 seconds In this Wings Over Australia episode, Dave Homewood and James Kightly visit the world famous Australian War Memorial in Canberra. This is a superb museum covering all aspects of Australia’s military history from the Boer War and [...]

Guest: Jamie Croker Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 23rd of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 57 seconds Another stop that Dave Homewood and James Kightly made on the epic Wings Over Australia tour last year was to the Australian War Memorial’s Treloar Technology Centre in Mitchell, Canberra, ACT. There they met the facility’s [...]

Guests: WWII Period – Ron Mayhill (Bomb Aimer), John Swale (Lancaster Air Gunner), Jack Meehan (Wireless Operator-Air Gunner), and Alan John (Bomb Aimer) Mosquito Period – Jim Arnold Vampire and Skyhawks Period – Warwick Jones Canberra Period – Barrie Gilliver Skyhawk Period – Nick Osborne Skyhawk Period and Association Secretary Glen Turner Hosts: Dave Homewood [...]

Guest: Matt Austin Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 22nd of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds Whilst in rural New South Wales to attend the Temora Airshow during the Wings over Australia tour, Dave and James’ host for the weekend was Matt Austin in the historic town of Junee. They [...]

“We Span The Ocean” The No. 5 Squadron RNZAF 75th Anniversary Reunion Show Guests, As Below: • Wings Commander Daniel “D.J.” Hunt Current Commander of No. 5 Squadron, Navigator, P-3K and P-3K2 Orions • Wings Commander Gordon Ragg AFC, JP Former Commander of No. 5 Squadron, Pilot, P-3B Orions, and No. 5 Squadron [...]

Guest: Ron Hildreth Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: December 2011 Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 59 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood interviews Ron Hildreth of Hamilton, who joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in September 1942, and trained as a Rigger. Following his course at RNZAF Station Rongotai he was posted to No. 16 [...]

Guest: Andy Bishop Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 22nd of November 2015 Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds Following the Warbirds Downunder 2015 Airshow at Temora last year, Dave Homewood and James Kightly got the rare opportunity to sit down with Andy Bishop, the Temora Aviation Museum’s chief engineer, to record an interview for [...]

Introduced by: Des Underwood MRAeS (Chairman, Bay of Plenty Branch, RAeS) Main Speaker: Brian Lockstone MRAeS Recorded: Friday 2nd of September 2016 in the Boeing Room at Classic Flyers Museum, 9 Jean Batten Drive, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga, recorded by Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 second In this episode we hear a recording [...]

Guests: Mark Awad, Bevan Dewes and Stewart Wilson Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 21st and 22nd of November 2015 Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 1 second Whilst attending the Warbirds Downunder 2015 Airshow at Temora, in New South Wales last year, Dave Homewood and James Kightly found some time between looking at air [...]

Guest: John Wall Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of July 2016 Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Mr. John Wall, of Hamilton. Born in London in 1923, John fell in love with the Supermarine Spitfire at the age of 16 and determined he’d join the Royal Air [...]

Guest: Steve Death Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 19th of November 2015 Duration: 59 minutes 14 seconds Dave Homewood and James Kightly continue the Wings Over Australia tour in this episode by dropping in on one of Australia’s most well known pilots, Steve Death, at his Hazair headquarters at Albury Airport in New [...]

Guest: Daniel Leahy Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 19th of November 2015 Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds In this episode – part of the Wings Over Australia sub-series – hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly met Daniel Leahy for lunch in the Albury Airport cafe in New South Wales, where they discuss Daniel’s [...]

Guest: Tim Costley Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of July 2016 Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds In this important episode Dave Homewood speaks with RNZAF pilot Tim Costley, who is one of the trustees of the Missing Wingman Trust. This trust was set up in 2010 as a means of supporting the families of RNZAF [...]

Guest: Judy Pay Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 18th of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 41 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood and James Kightly interview legendary Australian warbird owner and pilot Judy Pay for Wings Over Australia, at her home airfield of Tyabb, on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne, [...]

Guests: Ian Slater, Bruce Slater and Graeme Sutherland Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 10th of July 2016 Duration: 54 minutes 20 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood speaks with Ian Slater, Bruce Slater and Graeme Sutherland, all of the Typhoon Legacy Co. Ltd. team who are working to rebuild WWII Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber JP843 back to [...]

  Guests: Tim Martin and Rickey Rau Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 19th of November 2015 Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds In this Wings Over Australia episode of the WONZ Show Dave Homewood and James Kightly chat with pilots Tim Martin and Rickey Rau, the pilots who fly Coulson Aviation’s amazing civil Lockheed [...]

Guest: Don Mackenzie Hosts: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of September 2009 Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 39 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood has delved into his archive and pulled out one of his early interviews from back in September 2009 with the late Flight Lieutenant Donald Malcolm Mackenzie AFC, mid, RNZAF, retired (NZ401776) of [...]

Guest: Murray Wallace Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 16th of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 25 seconds In this Wings Over Australia episode, Dave Homewood and James Kightly speak with Murray Wallace who spent five years as an engine fitter in the RAAF in the 1950’s before transferring to the Australian [...]

Guest: Nick Veronico (Public Affairs spokesman for NASA’s SOFIA project) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of June 2016 Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds In this episode Dave talks with Nick Veronico of San Carlos, California, USA, who is currently working in Christchurch, New Zealand, with the NASA SOFIA project. SOFIA is an acronym for Stratospheric [...]

Guest: Matt Henderson Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 15th of November 2015 Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 40 seconds In this Wings Over Australia episode, Dave Homewood and James Kightly speak with Matt Henderson, who keeps his pristine NZAI CT/4 Airtrainer and Cessna Bird Dog at Kyneton Airport, in rural Victoria, Australia. They [...]

Recorded: 12th of June 2016 Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 52 seconds In this episode we hear the recording of the New Zealand Bomber Command Commemorative Service held in the Hall of Memories of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. This annual event remembers the thousands of New Zealanders who served with Bomber Command in the [...]

Guests: Andy Wright, Ron Gretton and Geoff Matthews Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 15th and 17th of November 2015 Duration: 2 hour 2 minutes 9 seconds   In this episode Dave Homewood and James Kightly visit the Royal Australian Air Force Museum at RAAF Point Cook in Victoria. James is [...]

Guest: Matt Jolley, James Kightly Hosts: Dave Homewood and Grant McHerron Recorded: April-May 2016 Duration: 3 hour 16 minutes 11 seconds (179 MB) In this special episode we celebrate marking the 100th episode of the Wings Over New Zealand Show. Host Dave Homewood is joined by his WONZ Live Show co-host Grant McHerron, and together [...]

Guest: Mac Bettjeman Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2015 Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 26 seconds (136 MB) In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Mac Bettjeman, who lives in a retirement home in Tauranga. Mac talks about his childhood in the fascinating wilderness settlement in the Maungapurua Valley, near the Whanganui [...]

Guest: Ian Whitney Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 14th of November 2015, at Romsey, Australia Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 20 seconds In this episode, in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly interview warbird recovery expert and restorer Ian Whitney. Ian talks about his background in aviation and [...]

Guest: Lindsay Budge Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 30th of October 2015 Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds (60.3 MB) In this episode Dave Homewood chats with WWII RNZAF veteran Lindsey Budge of Tauranga, who is now aged 96. He was a herd tester before the war,then spent some time in the Army before he transferred to [...]

Guest: Andrew Gormlie Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: Friday 8th of January 2016 Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds (41 MB) In this episode we hear from Andrew Gormlie of the Classic Flyers Museum in Tauranga about the upcoming “Classics To The Sky” Tauranga City Airshow, taking place on the 23rd of January 2016. He discusses what [...]

Guest: Nat Eichler Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 15th of November 2015, at Werribee, Australia Duration: 59 minutes 27 seconds In this episode, another in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly are given a guided tour of the magnificent ex-RAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator restoration at Werribee, near Melbourne, [...]

Guests: Dave Sodastrom, Ewan McArthur and Ashley Briggs Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 14th of November 2015, at Moorabbin, Australia Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 46 seconds In this episode the “Wings Over Australia” co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly visit The Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport near Melbourne, in Australia. [...]

Guest: Phil Vabre and Maurice Austin Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 13th of November 2015, at Essendon, Australia Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 30 seconds In this episode, in the Wings Over Australia sub-series, co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly are given a guided tour of The Airways Museum at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Peter Stuart Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of November 2015, in Melbourne, Australia Duration: 45 mins 47 seconds In this episode, part of the Wings Over Australia sub-series, Dave met and interviewed WWII veteran bomber pilot Peter Isaacson, who flew Vickers Wellingtons, Handley Page Halifax and Avro [...]

Guest: Gavin Conroy Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of November 2015, at Temora, Australia Duration: 52 minutes 4 seconds (71.5 MB) In this episode Dave catches up at Temora with well known kiwi aviation photographer Gavin Conroy to discuss his latest book, “Fighters and Bombers”, as well as talking about doing photo shoots around the [...]

Guest: Keith Webb Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Recorded: 11th of November 2015, in Melbourne, Australia Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes, 14 seconds (File Size 108 MB) Kicking off the Wings Over Australia interviews, Dave Homewood and James Kightly talk with Keith Webb of “Image Control”, who devotes his time to filming and recording [...]

Six days into the Wings Over Australia Tour, Dave Homewood and James Kightly give an “as live” report to listeners and supporters of the WOA series which is currently being recorded along the way. The schedule is intense and there has already been a lot of places visited, people met and recordings made. We just [...]

Guests: Bruce Cooke, Alistair McLaughlan, Doug King, John Farmer, Peter Beere, Willie, Tony Quayle, Peter Merwood, Bruce MacDonald, Gary Williams, John Lissington, Gavin Magill, Don Wilkinson and David Wilkinson Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th, 7th and 8th of November 2015, at Raglan, New Zealand Duration: 2 hours 57 minutes 13 seconds In this episode Dave [...]

Co-Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly Duration: 35 minutes, 28 seconds Recorded: 3rd of November 2015 Topic: This is the first episode in the Wings Over Australia sub-series of the WONZ Show. Co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly discuss the plans for the upcoming Australian aviation tour that starts on November [...]

Guests: Gavin Grimmer, Chris Rudge, and the Reverend Richard Waugh Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 7 seconds Recorded: 10th of August 2015 Published: Topic: Over the decades many aeroplanes have simply vanished mid-flight in New Zealand, disappearing without trace. Most are thought to have gone down into the bush-clad [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes, 28 seconds Recorded: 28th of July 2015 Published: 6th of September 2015 Topic: In this episode of the WONZ Show we continue the story of Noel Kruse’s aviation career. He talks about his time as a pilot, Flight Commander [...]

A recording of the speakers at a special evening hosted by the Cambridge Historical Society on the evening of the 13th of August 2015 about Gallipoli. The speakers heard, in order of appearance, are: Tony Gainsford (Cambridge Historical Society President) Grant Middlemiss (Evening Organiser) Sue Milner (talking about her trip to Gallipoli in April for [...]

Guest: Bee Dawson Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 43 minutes, 11 seconds Topic: Dave talks with author Bee Dawson about her history-based writing, her RNZAF service, and her RNZAF-themed books, including High Flyers, Spreading Their Wings, Hobsonville, Wigram and her upcoming book on the history of RNZAF Station Lauthala Bay in Fiji. <p [...]

Guest: Peter Tremayne Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes, 42 seconds Topic: In this second episode with Peter Tremayne we begin by revisiting a few of the stories from episode one to add some corrections and a little more information. We then get into his fascinating post-Air Force career, from [...]

Guest: Peter Tremayne Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes, 5 seconds Topic: In this episode of the “Wings Over New Zealand Show” the host Dave Homewood speaks with Peter Tremayne about his flying in the Royal New Zealand Air Force between 1957 and 1977. Peter trained on Harvards and [...]

Guest: Flight Lieutenant Douglas Stanley Peche Smith, DFC (NZ41948) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 54 minutes, 20 seconds Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 97 year old WWII veteran pilot Flight Lieutenant Doug Smith, DFC, about his vivid and colourful memories from his flying days. Doug, who now lives in [...]

Part One – The Wellingtons Guests: Jack Wakefield and the late Nick Carter Co-Hosts: Dave Homewood and Glen Turner Duration: 1 hour, 57 minutes, 38 seconds Topic: This is the first episode in a planned series detailing the long and proud history of No. 75 Squadron – both with the Royal Air [...]

Guest: The late Ron Noice Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes, 34 seconds Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with his late friend Ron Noice, an RNZAF veteran who flew in RAF Bomber Command. Ron was a Navigator-Bomb Aimer, training in New Zealand, Canada and Britain, before being posted [...]

Guest: Frank Parker Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 25 minutes, 24 seconds Topic: In this episode, another recording from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet at the New Zealand Warbirds Association hangar at Ardmore, we hear from NZ Warbirds President Frank Parker, who talks about his experiences flying New Zealand’s one and [...]

Guest: Peter Wheeler, Roy Montrowe, Keith Boles, Bill Petersen, Reg Dunbar, Des Hall and Alan Taylor Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 39 minutes, 31 seconds Recorded: 28th of September 2014 Topic: In this section of the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet we had a panel in which questions were put to [...]

Guest: John Lanham Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 39 minutes, 06 seconds Recorded: 7th of January 2015 Topic: In this episode we hear from well known airshow display pilot John Lanham in his capacity of the Display Director for the famous “Wings Over Wairarapa” airshow which is coming up next week. John [...]

Guest: Mark Helliwell Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 54 minutes, 33 seconds Recorded: 28th of September 2014 Topic: Former RNZAF Strike Wing pilot and current NZ Warbirds pilot Mark Halliwell talks about the history of the McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawk, and what it was like to fly in the Royal New Zealand [...]

Guest: Gavin Trethewey Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 36 minutes, 49 seconds Recorded: 28th of September 2014 Topic: Well known New Zealand Warbirds display pilot and former RNZAF combat pilot Gavin Trethewey talks about the English Electric Canberras that he flew with the Royal New Zealand Air Force through the 1960’s. <p [...]

Guest: Brett Nicholls Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 38 minutes, 21 seconds Recorded: 28th of September 2014 Topic: New Zealand Warbirds pilot Brett Nicholls talks about his two ex-RNZAF BAC167 Mk.88 Strikemaster jet fighter-trainers, which are based at Ardmore. Brett Nicholls By the way the small music [...]

Guest: Jonathan Pote Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes, 34 seconds Topic: In this episode we hear about the amazing life in aviation that Jonathan Pote has had so far. He’s known to many as a regular article writer for vaious aviation magazines, and we hear about his life from [...]

  Guest: Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC Host: Dave Homewood Interviewers: Dave Homewood and Richard Carstens Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes, 16 seconds Topic: In this episode, part two of two, we continue with the very interesting interview with Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC, RNZAF. For part one please [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC Host: Dave Homewood Interviewers: Dave Homewood and Richard Carstens Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds Topic: In this episode, part one of two, we hear an extremely interesting interview with Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC, RNZAF. He was one of the original [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 16 minutes, 04 seconds Recorded: 19th of May 2014 Published: 26th of June 2014 Topic: In another instalment of the life of pilot Noel Kruse we hear about his posting to No. 38 Squadron RAAF, where he converted onto the ubiquitous [...]

Speakers: Phil Furner, Michael Frawley, Ron Mayhill DFC, Group Captain Mike Longstaff, Squadron Leader Stuart Hight, Squadron Leader Dr. Jonathan Pote MBE (rtd) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 53 minutes, 36 seconds Topic: The New Zealand Bomber Command Association has recently had the Avro Lancaster bomber at MOTAT, which the NZBCA looks after, [...]

Speakers: Phil Furner, Ron Mayhill DFC, Squadron Leader Stuart Hight, Boguslaw Nowak, Air Vice Marshal Mike Yardley (Chief of Air Force, RNZAF), and Group Captain Stuart Oliver (RAAF) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute, 10 seconds Topic: This recording was made by Dave Homewood during the annual Bomber Command Commemoration [...]

Guest: Max Lambert Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 38 minutes, 37 seconds Recorded: 25th of May 2014, published 13 June 2014 Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood chats with well known author Max Lambert, who wrote “Night After Night” about the New Zealanders in RAF Bomber Command; “Day After Day” about kiwis [...]

Guests: Geoff Cooper, Jessica Cooper and Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 57 minutes, 14 seconds Recorded: 11th of May 2014 Topic:In this episode Dave Homewood talks with the operators of two classic aircraft that grace New Zealand’s skies. In the first interview we hear from Geoff Cooper and Jessica [...]

Guest: Peter McKinlay, with Trevor McKinlay Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes, 44 seconds Recorded: 19th of December 2013, via Skype Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 94 year old World War Two veteran Peter McKinlay of Cromwell, in Otago, New Zealand. Peter was a pilot on [...]

Guests: Warwick Jones, Melanie Salisbury and Ian ‘Iggy’ Wood Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes, 17 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the fourth and final episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet [...]

Special Correspondents: Denis Sharp and Tom Allett The Speakers: At Hunsdon, England – Denis Sharp, Lay preacher David Scott, Linda Gough, Martin Gough, Glen Thompson, Arthur Wingate, Roy Howe, Andrew Payne and Jim Cosgrove In Cambridge, New Zealand – Jenny Boon, Dave Homewood and Ray Tocker In Amiens, France – Tom Allett, Pierre Ben and [...]

Guests: Peter Wheeler, and Robert Peel Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 55 minutes, 59 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the third episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet 2014 held at Karapiro, Cambridge, New Zealand. [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Richard Stowers, Jonathan Pote and Barry Tod Duration: 56 minutes 23 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the second episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet 2014. The guest speakers in [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Larry Hill and Reg Wellington Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 11 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the first episode covering recordings made at the recent Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum Meet 2014, held [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Peter Rowley Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds Recorded: 7th of January 2014, via Skype to Peter’s home in Melbourne Topic: Dave chats with well known and much loved kiwi actor Peter Rowley about his aviation background. As well as appearing on kiwi screens in such hits as [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Doug McElwain Duration: 2 hours, 2 minutes 44 seconds Recorded: 15th of August 2013, at Hamilton Topic: Dave Homewood talks with WWII veteran instructor and topdressing pioneer Doug McElwain about his life as a pilot. Doug gives a very detailed account of his RNZAF training, which is often [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds Topic: Noel Kruse continues his story of flying in the Royal Australian Air Force, this time as a Fighter Weapons Instructor, flying predominantly Vampires and Macchi 326H’s. By the way the small music is Magic Ghost from Danosongs  

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Les Marshall Duration: 45 minutes 47 seconds Topic: Les Marshall completes his story of a life in aviation by talking about his lovely Ryan PT-22 trainer that is based at Ardmore Airport, and how he managed to find and buy it. He also has a few more tales [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Les Marshall Duration: 1 hour 00 minutes 12 seconds Topic: Les Marshall continues his story and talks about his time as a topdressing Douglas C-47 Dakota (DC-3) pilot with James Aviation Ltd. He also recalls several interesting and a few scary incidents from his long topdressing career. <p [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Les Marshall Duration: 49 minutes 19 seconds Topic: Les Marshall very kindly sat down with Dave Homewood for a couple of hours in the Pioneer Aero Ltd hangar at Ardmore to talk about his long and interesting career in aviation. He talks about his dicovery of aviation in [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 1 hour 00 minutes 17 seconds Topic: In this episode Cambridge-based pilot Noel Kruse discusses his Ryan STM-S2 which he recently completed a 33-year long restoration on, back to flying condition. Noel test flew his Ryan, which is known as “Charlie”, on the 16th of September [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Richard Small Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 15 seconds Topic: Richard is the CEO of Waikato Aero Club, based at Hamilton Airport. He’s also the President of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club (also known as Flying NZ). In this episode he talks about his own [...]

Episode Fifty – Ardmore Special Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Niqui Taylor, Paul McSweeny, Roy King, Warren Denholm, Brett Nicholl and John “JK” Kelly Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 29 seconds Topic: This special episode marks fifty episodes for the series so far, and was recorded at Ardmore Airport, where host Dave Homewood talks [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Noel Kruse, introduced by Roger Cruickshank Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds Topic: This episode was recorded live at the Hamilton Airport Motor Inn on the evening of the 12th of July 2013, at the Royal New Zealand Aero Club Annual Dinner. The guest speaker was Noel Kruse, and he [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Peter McQuarters (aka Peter Mac) and Jason McQuarters (aka Jason Mac) Duration: 1 hour, 6 minutes 18 seconds Topic: In this episode Dave chats with father and son, Peter and Jason McQuarters. Peter has been involved with aviation preservation since he was a teenager, when [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds Topic: More wonderful and action packed memories from kiwi-born former RAAF test pilot Noel Kruse. In this episode he is still a test pilot at the Testing and Ferry Flight, No. 3 Aircraft Depot, at RAAF Amberley – but this episode covers [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 1 hour 37 seconds Topic: Following the completion of his operational tour at Butterworth, RAAF Sabre pilot Noel Kruse was hoping on his return to Australia to be placed onto a Fighter Instructor’s Course. However to his shock and dismay he found he was actually posted [...]

Episode Forty Five – The Mosquito Honour Dinner Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Peter McQuarters, Frank Parker, Peter Fahey, Peter Anderson, Allan George, Glyn Powell, Warren Denholm, Jerry Yagen, Richard Gates, Keith Skilling and Dave Phillips Duration: 53 minutes Topic: On the eve of the de Havilland Mosquito KA114 making its debut flight at [...]

Episode Forty Four – Skyhawk Pilot Barry “Patch” Nelson Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Barry “Patch” Nelson Duration: 40 minutes, 16 seconds Topic: Dave talks with Wing Commander Barry “Patch” Nelson, who flew the McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawk with the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1987 through till 1997. During that time he [...]

Episode Forty Three – Alistair Marshall Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Al Marshall Duration: 1 hour, 44 minutes, 27 seconds Topic: Dave talks with Christchurch-based pilot and aero engineer Al Marshall. Formerly an RNZAF aircraft technician-turned-pilot, and currently a Boeing 737 First Officer with Virgin Australia, Al is better known for leading the restoration [...]

Episode Forty Two – Classic Fighters 2013 Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Dave Johnson, Colin Owers, Tony Wytenburg, Jessica Cooper, Melanie Salsbury, Jan Chisum, Jerry Chisum, Al Marshall Duration: 1 hour, 03 minutes, 16 seconds Topic: In this airshow special I wandered around the various stands and displays at Classic Fighters airshow at Omaka, [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes, 13 seconds Topic: In part six of Noel Kruse’s fascinating life story we hear his memories of flying the CAC Avon Sabre Mk. 32 fighter jets of the RAAF detachment at the Thai base of Ubon. Their role was [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Phil Furner, Peter Wheeler and John Wilding Duration: 51 minutes, 24 seconds Topic: Dave Homewood interviews Phil Furner, Peter Wheeler and John Wilding about New Zealand’s only preserved Avro Lancaster, ND752 (formerly WU13). They discuss the history, acquisition, restoration and preservation of the Lancaster, and also what the aircraft [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 1 hour, 17 minutes, 06 seconds Topic: Noel Kruse continues his story as a fighter pilot, now flying the CAC Avon Sabre Mk. 32 jets with No. 3 Squadron RAAF and No. 77 Squadron RAAF at RAAF Butterworth in Malaysia during the Indonesian Confrontation conflict.

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Noel Kruse Duration: 1 hour, 12 minutes, 10 seconds Topic: In this episode Noel tells us about his time with No. 76 Squadron RAAF at Williamstown and Darwin, flying CAC Sabres in peacetime and in a time of war. Noel Kruse next to a painting [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Graham Orphan Duration: 45 minutes, 24 seconds Topic: In this episode we hear from Graham Orphan, the man in charge of the world renowned Classic Fighters airshow held every second Easter at Omaka Aerodrome at Blenheim, Marlborough, at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. We hear [...]

Peter Wheeler and the New Zealand Bomber Command Association Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Peter Wheeler Duration: 37 minutes, 16 seconds Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Peter Wheeler of the New Zealand Bomber Command Association about the history and current activities of the NZBCA Quick Links: • The New [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 13 minutes, 50 seconds Recorded: 22nd of February 2013 Topic:. In this third interview Noel Kruse details his conversion training onto the CAC Avon Sabre, the Australian-built and improved version of the famous North American F-86 Sabre fighter jet. Noel [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 36 minutes, 56 seconds Recorded: 15th of February 2013 Topic:. In this second episode in the series, Noel talks to Dave about his flying training experiences in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1962, where he re-learned all about flying in CAC Winjeels and de [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 36 minutes Recorded: 15th of February 2013 Topic:. Dave Homewood talks with pilot and author Noel Kruse in the first of a series of episodes covering Noel’s more than 51 years in aviation in Australia and New Zealand. In this episode Noel talks about his [...]

Guests: Carla McKnight Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 2 minutes, 48 seconds Recorded: 22nd of January 2013 Topic:. Dave Homewood talks with Cambridge-based artist Carla McKnight, who specialises in painting warbirds, horses and other animals in acrylics. Carla is soon moving away from Cambridge to Auckland due to a change in [...]

Guests: Bill Reid, Robin Reid Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 20 minutes, 15 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2013 Topic:. Dave Homewood recorded a full engine run of the Reid family’s Avro Anson Mk. 1 from inside the cabin, whilst at the Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 Airshow. This short [...]

Guests: Greg Tyrrell, Bill Reid, Warren Denholm, Dave Phillips, Brett Emeny, Peter Anderson and Tom Williams Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 48 minutes, 29 seconds Recorded: 18th-20th of January 2013 Topic:. Dave Homewood talks live in the field to various people at the Wings Over Wairarapa 2013 Airshow, which was held at [...]

Guest: Brian Farrell Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes, 59 seconds Recorded: 20th of November 2012 Topic:. Brian Farrell has had a long association with aviation. He joined the RNZAF in 1955 and trained as an Airframes Mechanic. Serving in that capacity on Vampires in New Zealand and Canberras in [...]

Guest: Bernie Lewis Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 53 minutes, 10 seconds Recorded: July 2010 Topic:. Bernie Lewis joined the Royal Air Force in 1950 and served as a jet fighter pilot on Vampires and Sabres before becoming an instructor. He was then selected to attend the Empire Test Pilots School, one of [...]

Episode Twenty Seven – Forum Meet at Don Subritzky’s Collection, 30th of September 2012 Guests: Gordon Glynn, Bob De Le Hunty, John Beeching, Murray Lane, James Kightly and special guest Jerry Yagen Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 47 minutes, 30 seconds (Recorded 30th September 2012) Topic:. This recording includes most of the guest [...]

Guest: Wing Commander Thomas Welch Horton DSO, DFC* (pff) (retired) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 51 minutes, 27 seconds (Recorded May 2012) Topic: Wing Commander Tom Horton was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War. He was attached to the Royal Air Force in 1940, and [...]

Guest: Ryan Daum Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 25 minutes, 29 seconds (Recorded 12th of July 2012) Topic: Ryan Daum is a longtime member of the Wings Over New Zealand Forum community, and though currently only 19 years old, he has quite an interesting background in aviation already. He took his first flying [...]

Guest: Warren Denholm Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 38 minutes, 32 seconds (Recorded 10th of July 2012) Topic: Warren Denholm takes some time out of his very bust schedule to talk to us about his career in warbird restoration, and his company Avspecs Ltd. Recognised and followed around the world for a number [...]

Guest: Paul McSweeny Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 114 minutes, 59 seconds (Recorded 10th of July 2012) Topic: Paul McSweeny tells us the story of his career in aviation, starting with his time in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and his subsequent career working on the restoration of warbird fighters at Pioneer [...]

Guests: Roy Browne, Phil Byrne and Lynnette James Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 25 minutes, 41 seconds Topic: Following up on the restoration of the Ossie James topdressing Dakota ZK-AZL, Dave Homewood makes a visit to the APS, or Aviation Painting Services, facility at Hamilton Airport. There he is given a tour of [...]

Guest: Laurence Harcourt “Bunty” Bunt, RNZAF, NZ405799 Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 67 minutes, 54 seconds Topic: Flying Officer Laurence Bunt, NZ405799, known as Bunty to all his mates, is a local legend around the Marlborough region. One of the enthusiastic team of guides at the Aviation Heritage Centre at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, [...]

Guest: Dave Starr Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 57 minutes, 44 seconds Topic: Dave Starr had a long career in agricultural aviation, first as a loader-driver and then as a pilot. He flew Fletchers and Dakotas as a topdressing pilot, including with James Aviation. He also talks about his early memories of growing [...]

Guest: W/C Owen Hardy DFC Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 25 minutes, 8 seconds Topic: Owen Hardy was a wartime fighter pilot. He flew Spitfires in combat in North Africa and Europe, including serving with No. 72 Squadron in Britain and in the desert, and No. 485 (NZ) Squadron. He is one of [...]

Episode Eighteen – Forum Meet At Biggin Hill Hangar RNZAF Base Ohakea 2012 Guests: Brendon Deere, with support from Guy Stevenson and Kelly Rankin Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 57 minutes, 03 seconds Topic: This is a recording of the really fascinating talk that warbird owner, historian and author Brendon Deere gave to [...]

Guests: Anthony Galbraith Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 71 minutes, 7 seconds Topic: Anthony Galbraith is well known as one of New Zealand’s top scale aircraft modellers. He has a reputation for recreating exacting details with his kitsets, and he likes to concentrate on New Zealand aviation subjects, both RNZAF and civil. Many [...]

Guests: Neville Mines Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 79 minutes, 14 seconds Topic: Neville Mines, known as ‘Shorty’ in his RNZAF days and on the Wings Over New Zealand Forum, is a fascinating mine of information (pardon the pun). His long and extraordinary background in aviation includes Air Training Corps, volunteering at the [...]

Guest: Rex Bunn Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 29 minutes, 7 seconds Topic: Rex talks to us about King’s Crew, which is the unique Unit History of an exemplary Air Training Corps Squadron, No. 14 Squadron ATC, between 1941 and 2011. This is not merely a book, it is a multimedia history which gathers together the [...]

Guests: Lynnette James, Phil Byrne and Brett Puddle Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 14 minutes, 27 seconds Topic: An episode recorded on site on the 8th of February 2012, the day that Dougas Dakota ZK-AZL was disassembled and moved from Mystery Creek to Hamilton Airport for repair and repainting. Quick Links: • The Ossie [...]

Guests: Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFC, AE Duration: 19 minutes, 34 seconds Topic: President of the Bomber Command Association in the United Kingdom, Squadron Leader Tony Iveson visited the Museum of Transport and Technology on Wednesday the 11th of January 2012 to address the New Zealand Bomber Command Association. This recording is of [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Jim Mungall and Don Subritzky Duration: 55 minutes, 7 seconds Topic: In this episode we discuss the history of the Hawker Hind in service with the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1940 till 1943. Our guests are well known aircraft collector Don Subritzky and Hind owner and historian Jim [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Peter Lewis Duration: 42 minutes, 46 seconds Topic: Peter Lewis has a renowned collection of photographs and data on New Zealand aircraft that he has keenly shared for many years on the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum. In this interview we hear how he first became interested in aviation [...]

Squadron Leader Ross Horton Dedicating Plaque Featuring: Squadron Leader Ross Horton – then Padre from RNZAF Base Auckland Duration: 7 minutes, 19 seconds Topic: This recording was made on Saturday the 13th of November 2004, during the official launch of the Wings Over Cambridge website and Air Force Reunion held at the Cambridge [...]

Guest: Bryan Cox – WWII Fighter Pilot and Author Duration: 45 minutes Topic: This recording was made on Saturday the 13th of November 2004 at the Victoria Room of the Cambridge Town Hall, at the official launch of the Wings Over Cambridge website. The event was also a reunion of [...]

Episode Eight – Forum Meet 2011 Part Four Guest: Geoff Cooper – Airline Pilot and Dakota Captain Duration: 13 minutes, 39 seconds Topic: This recording was made on the 14th of May 2011 at the Cambridge Club, in Cambridge at the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum’s annual gathering, which this year was [...]

Episode Seven – Forum Meet 2011 Part Three Guest: Alan Peart DFC – WWII RNZAF Fighter Ace Duration: 40 minutes, 7 seconds Topic: This recording was made on the 14th of May 2011 at the Cambridge Club, in Cambridge at the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum’s annual gathering, which this year [...]

Episode Six – Forum Meet 2011 Part Two Guest: Larry Hill – Book Collector, Historian and Author Duration: 17 minutes, 29 seconds Topic: This recording was made on the 14th of May 2011 at the Cambridge Club, in Cambridge at the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum’s annual gathering, which this [...]

Guest: Bob Glading – WWII Fleet Air Arm Pilot Duration: 11 minutes, 29 seconds Topic: This recording was made on the 14th of May 2011 at the Cambridge Club, in Cambridge at the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum’s annual gathering, which this year was the Forum Meet and Veterans Day. The [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Bruce Cooke Duration: 76 minutes, 09 seconds Topic: We hear from Bruce his early introduction into aviation, and his very brief career in the RNZAF, followed by his training as an engineer in civil aviation. We hear about working at Gulf Aeronautics, Aeromotive at Hamilton and CityJet, among other [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Gavin Conroy – Aviation Photographer and Author Duration: 52 minutes, 23 seconds Topic: In this episode we talk with well known aviation photographer Gavin Conroy of Blenheim about his famous air to air photography, his beautiful calendars that he has released over the years, his involvement with the organisation of [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Don Simms – Moderator of the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum, former RNZAF Avionics Technicians and Co-Author of the book “SKYHAWKS” Duration: 113 minutes, 5 seconds total Topic: We talk about Don’s career in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an Avionics Technician servicing Bell Iroquois helicopters [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Craig Brankin Duration: 75 minutes, 15 seconds Topic: In this introductory episode to the series I chat with the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum moderator Craig Brankin, aka corsair67, about the genesis of the Wings Over Cambridge website and the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation [...]