Guest: Grace Hills

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 5th of September 2023

Published: 23rd of September 2023

Duration: 35 minutes, 26 seconds

Dave Homewood talks with Grace Hills in this episode to mark the annual international Girls In Aviation Day!

Grace is an aircraft technician in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and she is also a private pilot. [...]

Guests: Darren Harbar, Steve Darlow, George Dunn DFC and David Bremner

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 1st and 2nd of July 2023

Published: 16th of September 2023

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes, 20 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood met with several friends at the hallowed ground that is Old Warden aerodrome, the home of the world famous Shuttleworth Collection. He [...]

Guest: Flt Lt David Barnston, RAF/RNZAF retired

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 1st of September 2023

Published: 10th of September 2023

Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes, 47 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 99-year old fighter pilot veteran David Barnston, who was born in London, and went to school next to RAF Hendon as a lad. He joined [...]

This is an introduction to the new series Warbird Radio Downunder which starts today on the Warbird Radio Network.

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WARBIRD RADIO – The Wings Over New Zealand Show LIVE host Dave Homewood is back on Warbird Radio, with a similar show but the new name is Warbird Radio Downunder. He and occasional co-host Grant [...]

Guest: Tony Hoskins

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 30th of June 2023

Published: 20th of August 2023

Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes, 38 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Tony Hoskins who is leading the team who are restoring Supermarine Spitfire PR.IV AA810, known as Sandy’s Spitfire. This Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Spitfire was flown by Flight Lieutenant [...]

Guest:  David Morris, Principle Conservator at the Fleet Air Arm Museum

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 28th of June 2023

Published: 15th of August 2023

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes, 31 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood visits The Fleet Air Arm Museum, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, at Yeovilton in Somerset. There he [...]

Guests: Dave Cole and Margaret Wilmot

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 30th of June 2023

Duration: 1 hour 41 minute 46 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Dave Cole, a guide and local historian at the Biggin Hill Memorial Museum, at former RAF Biggin Hill. Dave talks about the fascinating history of the famous [...]

Guests:  Andrew Lewis and Allan Winn

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 29th of June 2023

Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 13 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Andrew Lewis and Allan Winn at the Brooklands Museum, at Weybridge, Surrey, in England. Brooklands was the home of British motor racing, and also the home of Vickers Weybridge, a [...]

Guests:  Lee Howard and Rob Jones

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 28th of June 2023

Released: 17th of July 2023

Duration: 57 minutes

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with naval aviation historian Lee Howard and Navy Wings’ marketing manager Rob Jones during a walk around the Navy Wings hangar at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, in Somerset.

Aircraft in the hangar [...]

Guest:  Flight Lieutenant Alan Ross Boyens, RAF (Retired)

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 27th of June 2023

Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes, 30 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Ross Boyens, a New Zealander who joined the Royal Air Force in 1972. Following his initial officer training at Wigram with the RNZAF, he then went off to [...]