The Wings Over New Zealand Show

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 Air Force Mark Helliwell By the way the small music clip comes from Danosongs and is called M...

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. Gavin Trethewey By the way the small music clip comes from Danosongs and...

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 clip comes from Danosongs and is called Magic Ghost

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 his early days as a plane spotting child in Devon, Britain, to wreck hunting and helping to save impo...

  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 click here: Les was one of the original members of the Royal Air Force’s most...

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 members of the Royal Air Force’s most famous unit, No. 617 Squadron – The Damb...

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 de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou. This famous transport aircraft could fly loads into the most remote places, and...

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, re-marked with the cods, serial and nose art of the fa...

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 at Auckland War Memorial Museum on the 8th of June 2014. Some...

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 in RAF Fighter Command; and his latest book is “ Victory: Ne...

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 Cooper about what it takes to keep the venerable Ardmore-based Douglas Dakota ZK-DA...

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 the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and served as an instructor on Tiger Moths before joining No. 15...

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 2014 held at Karapiro, Cambridge, New Zealand. The guest speakers in this episode are as...

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 Dr. Jean-Pierre Ducellier Host: Dave Homew...

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. The guest speakers in this episode are as follows: Peter Wheeler of the New Zealand Bomber Co...

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 this episode are as follows: Richard Stowers is a well known historian and author of New Zealand m...

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 on the 19th of January 2014 at the Don Rowlands Centre, Lake Karapiro, Cambridge, New Zealand. This...

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 A Week Of It , McPhail And Gadsby , The Billy T. James Show , A Letter To Blanchy , and as the...

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 overlooked in interviews with pilots who like to brush over the training side of t...

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 of his flying in the DC-3 topdressers, and some very scary stories of incidents in the air where pure luck and flying...

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. Many thanks to Paul McSweeny and Steve Cox of Pioneer Aero Restorations Ltd for setti...

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 1945 as a six or seven year old, and his time in the Royal New Zealand Air Force under Compulsory Mili...

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 2013. “Charlie” is a very rare survivor of the Royal...

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 flying experiences, his roles in these two clubs, and what’s happening these days at the WAC and within the...