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 [...]