The Wings Over New Zealand Show

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 [...]