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 [...]