Guest: Max Speedy

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 13th of December 2021

Released: 14th of January 2022

Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 11 seconds

This is the third and likely final interview with Max Speedy. Born in Levin, New Zealand in 1944, Max moved with his family to Australia when he was five years [...]

Guest: Max Speedy

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 23rd of November 2021

Released:  28th of December 2021

Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 56 seconds

In this episode, Royal Australian Navy Vietnam veteran and historian Max Speedy starts off by giving an overview of the background history of the Vietnam War, and how the [...]

Guests: Max Speedy, Marty Irons, and the late Geoffrey Fisken

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 22nd of Nov 2021 (Max Speedy, and Marty Irons) and 16th of Sept 2009 (Geoff Fisken)

Released: 7th of December 2021

Duration: 2 hours 51 minutes 47 seconds

This special episode is a three-part special commemorating the 80th Anniversary [...]

Guest: Phillip Barnes, aka Barnsey

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 4th of October 2021

Released:  5th of November 2021

Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds

This episode is the third in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations.

In this episode Phil [...]

Guest: Peter Lindsay

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 30th of September 2021

Released:  29th of October 2021

Duration: 39 minutes 19 seconds

This episode is the second in a series called “Great Escapes”, covering stories of RNZAF ejections from aircraft that have saved lives in emergency situations.

In this episode Pete Lindsay [...]

Guest: Air Commodore Geoffrey Hubbard OBE, RNZAF Retired

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 1st of October 2021

Released:  22nd of October 2021

Duration: 53 minutes 27 seconds

This episode is the first in a series called “Great Escapes”, which will delve into some intense stories of pilots, aircrew or passengers finding themselves in [...]

Guest Speaker: Denys Jones

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 30th of October 2016

Released: 17th of October 2021

Duration: 46 minutes 43 seconds

This episode is a recording of a fantastic talk given by Denys Jones of Ferrymead Aeronautical Society in Christchurch at a Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]