“We Span The Ocean” The No. 5 Squadron RNZAF 75th Anniversary Reunion

Show Guests, As Below: • Wings Commander Daniel “D.J.” Hunt Current Commander of No. 5 Squadron, Navigator, P-3K and P-3K2 Orions • Wings Commander Gordon Ragg AFC, JP Former Commander of No. 5 Squadron, Pilot, P-3B Orions, and No. 5 Squadron [...]

Guest: Ron Hildreth

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: December 2011

Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 59 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood interviews Ron Hildreth of Hamilton, who joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in September 1942, and trained as a Rigger. Following his course at RNZAF Station Rongotai he was posted to No. 16 [...]

Guest: Andy Bishop

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 22nd of November 2015

Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds

Following the Warbirds Downunder 2015 Airshow at Temora last year, Dave Homewood and James Kightly got the rare opportunity to sit down with Andy Bishop, the Temora Aviation Museum’s chief engineer, to record an interview for [...]

Introduced by: Des Underwood MRAeS (Chairman, Bay of Plenty Branch, RAeS)

Main Speaker: Brian Lockstone MRAeS

Recorded: Friday 2nd of September 2016 in the Boeing Room at Classic Flyers Museum, 9 Jean Batten Drive, Mt Maunganui, Tauranga, recorded by Dave Homewood

Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 2 second

In this episode we hear a recording [...]

Guests: Mark Awad, Bevan Dewes and Stewart Wilson

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 21st and 22nd of November 2015

Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 1 second

Whilst attending the Warbirds Downunder 2015 Airshow at Temora, in New South Wales last year, Dave Homewood and James Kightly found some time between looking at air [...]

Guest: John Wall

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 27th of July 2016

Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 6 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Mr. John Wall, of Hamilton. Born in London in 1923, John fell in love with the Supermarine Spitfire at the age of 16 and determined he’d join the Royal Air [...]

Guest: Steve Death

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 19th of November 2015

Duration: 59 minutes 14 seconds

Dave Homewood and James Kightly continue the Wings Over Australia tour in this episode by dropping in on one of Australia’s most well known pilots, Steve Death, at his Hazair headquarters at Albury Airport in New [...]

Guest: Daniel Leahy

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 19th of November 2015

Duration: 31 minutes 24 seconds

In this episode – part of the Wings Over Australia sub-series – hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly met Daniel Leahy for lunch in the Albury Airport cafe in New South Wales, where they discuss Daniel’s [...]

Guest: Tim Costley

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 23rd of July 2016

Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

In this important episode Dave Homewood speaks with RNZAF pilot Tim Costley, who is one of the trustees of the Missing Wingman Trust. This trust was set up in 2010 as a means of supporting the families of RNZAF [...]

Guest: Judy Pay

Hosts: Dave Homewood and James Kightly

Recorded: 18th of November 2015

Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 41 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood and James Kightly interview legendary Australian warbird owner and pilot Judy Pay for Wings Over Australia, at her home airfield of Tyabb, on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne, [...]