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

The Jolley Company, LLC|9/8/2023

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 [...]

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) [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

Guest:  Lewis James Day, MNZM, DFC

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 11th of June 2023

Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes, 12 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks via Zoom with Lew Day, who was just five weeks away from turning 100 at the time of the recording, and Lew’s son Brian Day was [...]

Guest:  Group Captain Jason Easthope, RAAF

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 16th of May 2023

Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes, 41 seconds

In this episode Dave Homewood talks via Zoom with Group Captain Jason Easthope, RAAF. Born in Rotorua, New Zealand, Easty became inspired by a visit of the RNZAF Strikemasters to Rotorua, [...]

Guest:  Bevan Dewes

Hosts: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 27th of April 2023

Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes, 54 seconds

In this episode we welcome back Bevan Dewes to the WONZ Show to discuss the restoration and return to flight of his award winning North American Aviation Harvard Mk. IIA NZ1044, aka ZK-OTU.