The Wings Over New Zealand Show

  Guest: Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC Host: Dave Homewood Interviewers: Dave Homewood and Richard Carstens Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes, 16 seconds Topic: In this episode, part two of two, we continue with the very interesting interview with Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC, RNZAF. For part one please [...]

Guest: Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC Host: Dave Homewood Interviewers: Dave Homewood and Richard Carstens Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds Topic: In this episode, part one of two, we hear an extremely interesting interview with Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO, DFC, RNZAF. He was one of the original [...]

Guest: Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 16 minutes, 04 seconds Recorded: 19th of May 2014 Published: 26th of June 2014 Topic: In another instalment of the life of pilot Noel Kruse we hear about his posting to No. 38 Squadron RAAF, where he converted onto the ubiquitous [...]

Speakers: Phil Furner, Michael Frawley, Ron Mayhill DFC, Group Captain Mike Longstaff, Squadron Leader Stuart Hight, Squadron Leader Dr. Jonathan Pote MBE (rtd) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 53 minutes, 36 seconds Topic: The New Zealand Bomber Command Association has recently had the Avro Lancaster bomber at MOTAT, which the NZBCA looks after, [...]

Speakers: Phil Furner, Ron Mayhill DFC, Squadron Leader Stuart Hight, Boguslaw Nowak, Air Vice Marshal Mike Yardley (Chief of Air Force, RNZAF), and Group Captain Stuart Oliver (RAAF) Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute, 10 seconds Topic: This recording was made by Dave Homewood during the annual Bomber Command Commemoration [...]

Guest: Max Lambert Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 38 minutes, 37 seconds Recorded: 25th of May 2014, published 13 June 2014 Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood chats with well known author Max Lambert, who wrote “Night After Night” about the New Zealanders in RAF Bomber Command; “Day After Day” about kiwis [...]

Guests: Geoff Cooper, Jessica Cooper and Noel Kruse Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 57 minutes, 14 seconds Recorded: 11th of May 2014 Topic:In this episode Dave Homewood talks with the operators of two classic aircraft that grace New Zealand’s skies. In the first interview we hear from Geoff Cooper and Jessica [...]

Guest: Peter McKinlay, with Trevor McKinlay Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes, 44 seconds Recorded: 19th of December 2013, via Skype Topic: In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 94 year old World War Two veteran Peter McKinlay of Cromwell, in Otago, New Zealand. Peter was a pilot on [...]

Guests: Warwick Jones, Melanie Salisbury and Ian ‘Iggy’ Wood Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes, 17 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the fourth and final episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet [...]

Special Correspondents: Denis Sharp and Tom Allett The Speakers: At Hunsdon, England – Denis Sharp, Lay preacher David Scott, Linda Gough, Martin Gough, Glen Thompson, Arthur Wingate, Roy Howe, Andrew Payne and Jim Cosgrove In Cambridge, New Zealand – Jenny Boon, Dave Homewood and Ray Tocker In Amiens, France – Tom Allett, Pierre Ben and [...]

Guests: Peter Wheeler, and Robert Peel Host: Dave Homewood Duration: 55 minutes, 59 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the third episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet 2014 held at Karapiro, Cambridge, New Zealand. [...]

Host: Dave Homewood Guests: Richard Stowers, Jonathan Pote and Barry Tod Duration: 56 minutes 23 seconds Recorded: 19th of January 2014, live at the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet Topic: This is the second episode of recordings from the Wings Over New Zealand Forum Meet 2014. The guest speakers in [...]

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 [...]