The Wings Over New Zealand Show

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 airfield at Rangitata Island in Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zeala...

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” with Brett Nicholls&#8217...

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 is being published exactly five years to the day after...

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 nowadays one of the world’s more well kn...

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....

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 training system from initial entry at Lords Cricket Ground and flying Tiger Moth...

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 Thurstan, who is one of the volunteer engineers r...

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 our Air Force Museum of New Zealand. Dave Homew...

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 •   The Air Force Museum of New Zea...

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 WWI through to WWII, Korea, Malaya, Vietnam, the Gu...

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 Large Technology Conservator Jamie Croke...

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 R...

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 took the opportunity to interview Matt about his own interest in aviation...

“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 Association president •   Peter Culpan Former No. 5 Squadro...

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 (Fighter) Squadron at RNZAF Fairhall, the small satellite fighter b...

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 Wings Over Australia. Andy provides a fa...

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 made of the inaugural “Jean Batten Lecture”,...

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 displays and the massive collection of vintage aircraft to chat...

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 Force to fly them. He was enlisted at 17 years old, and following initial training in B...

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 South Wales. Steve is well known for his work in agricu...

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 work as a historian and his studying to become a...

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 personnel who have been killed, injured, or become ill, or suffered in some way. Th...

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, Victoria. Judy talks about her earliest days in...

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 flying condition. The project is based on Vancouver Is...

  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 L-100-30 Hercules ‘Thor’, N405LC. This Hercules is fitted wi...