Guests: Roy Browne, Phil Byrne and Lynnette James

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 25 minutes, 41 seconds

Topic: Following up on the restoration of the Ossie James topdressing Dakota ZK-AZL, Dave Homewood makes a visit to the APS, or Aviation Painting Services, facility at Hamilton Airport. There he is given a tour of [...]

Guest: Laurence Harcourt “Bunty” Bunt, RNZAF, NZ405799

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 67 minutes, 54 seconds

Topic: Flying Officer Laurence Bunt, NZ405799, known as Bunty to all his mates, is a local legend around the Marlborough region. One of the enthusiastic team of guides at the Aviation Heritage Centre at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, [...]

Guest: Dave Starr

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 57 minutes, 44 seconds

Topic: Dave Starr had a long career in agricultural aviation, first as a loader-driver and then as a pilot. He flew Fletchers and Dakotas as a topdressing pilot, including with James Aviation. He also talks about his early memories of growing [...]

Guest: W/C Owen Hardy DFC

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 25 minutes, 8 seconds

Topic: Owen Hardy was a wartime fighter pilot. He flew Spitfires in combat in North Africa and Europe, including serving with No. 72 Squadron in Britain and in the desert, and No. 485 (NZ) Squadron. He is one of [...]

Episode Eighteen – Forum Meet At Biggin Hill Hangar RNZAF Base Ohakea 2012

Guests: Brendon Deere, with support from Guy Stevenson and Kelly Rankin

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 57 minutes, 03 seconds

Topic: This is a recording of the really fascinating talk that warbird owner, historian and author Brendon Deere gave to [...]

Guests: Anthony Galbraith

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 71 minutes, 7 seconds

Topic: Anthony Galbraith is well known as one of New Zealand’s top scale aircraft modellers. He has a reputation for recreating exacting details with his kitsets, and he likes to concentrate on New Zealand aviation subjects, both RNZAF and civil. Many [...]

Guests: Neville Mines

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 79 minutes, 14 seconds

Topic: Neville Mines, known as ‘Shorty’ in his RNZAF days and on the Wings Over New Zealand Forum, is a fascinating mine of information (pardon the pun). His long and extraordinary background in aviation includes Air Training Corps, volunteering at the [...]

Guest: Rex Bunn

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 29 minutes, 7 seconds

Topic: Rex talks to us about King’s Crew, which is the unique Unit History of an exemplary Air Training Corps Squadron, No. 14 Squadron ATC, between 1941 and 2011. This is not merely a book, it is a multimedia history which gathers together the [...]

Guests: Lynnette James, Phil Byrne and Brett Puddle

Host: Dave Homewood

Duration: 14 minutes, 27 seconds

Topic: An episode recorded on site on the 8th of February 2012, the day that Dougas Dakota ZK-AZL was disassembled and moved from Mystery Creek to Hamilton Airport for repair and repainting.

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Guests: Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFC, AE

Duration: 19 minutes, 34 seconds

Topic: President of the Bomber Command Association in the United Kingdom, Squadron Leader Tony Iveson visited the Museum of Transport and Technology on Wednesday the 11th of January 2012 to address the New Zealand Bomber Command Association. This recording is of [...]