The Wings Over New Zealand Show

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 [...]