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. [...]