Host: Dave Homewood

Guests: Larry Hill and Reg Wellington

Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 11 seconds

Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet

Topic: This is the first episode covering recordings made at the recent Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum Meet 2014, held [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Peter Rowley

Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds

Recorded: 7th of January 2014, via Skype to Peter’s home in Melbourne

Topic: Dave chats with well known and much loved kiwi actor Peter Rowley about his aviation background. As well as appearing on kiwi screens in such hits as [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Doug McElwain

Duration: 2 hours, 2 minutes 44 seconds

Recorded: 15th of August 2013, at Hamilton

Topic: Dave Homewood talks with WWII veteran instructor and topdressing pioneer Doug McElwain about his life as a pilot. Doug gives a very detailed account of his RNZAF training, which is often [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Noel Kruse

Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds

Topic: Noel Kruse continues his story of flying in the Royal Australian Air Force, this time as a Fighter Weapons Instructor, flying predominantly Vampires and Macchi 326H’s.

By the way the small music is Magic Ghost from Danosongs

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Les Marshall

Duration: 45 minutes 47 seconds

Topic: Les Marshall completes his story of a life in aviation by talking about his lovely Ryan PT-22 trainer that is based at Ardmore Airport, and how he managed to find and buy it.

He also has a few more tales [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Les Marshall

Duration: 1 hour 00 minutes 12 seconds

Topic: Les Marshall continues his story and talks about his time as a topdressing Douglas C-47 Dakota (DC-3) pilot with James Aviation Ltd.

He also recalls several interesting and a few scary incidents from his long topdressing career.

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Les Marshall

Duration: 49 minutes 19 seconds

Topic: Les Marshall very kindly sat down with Dave Homewood for a couple of hours in the Pioneer Aero Ltd hangar at Ardmore to talk about his long and interesting career in aviation.

He talks about his dicovery of aviation in [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Noel Kruse

Duration: 1 hour 00 minutes 17 seconds

Topic: In this episode Cambridge-based pilot Noel Kruse discusses his Ryan STM-S2 which he recently completed a 33-year long restoration on, back to flying condition. Noel test flew his Ryan, which is known as “Charlie”, on the 16th of September [...]

Host: Dave Homewood

Guest: Richard Small

Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 15 seconds

Topic: Richard is the CEO of Waikato Aero Club, based at Hamilton Airport. He’s also the President of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club (also known as Flying NZ). In this episode he talks about his own [...]

Episode Fifty – Ardmore Special

Host: Dave Homewood

Guests: Niqui Taylor, Paul McSweeny, Roy King, Warren Denholm, Brett Nicholl and John “JK” Kelly

Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 29 seconds

Topic: This special episode marks fifty episodes for the series so far, and was recorded at Ardmore Airport, where host Dave Homewood talks [...]