Guest: Air Commodore David Harrison RAF, retired. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of October 2024 Published: 5th of October 2024 Duration: 1 hour, 26 minutes, 19 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with David Harrison, who currently works for the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority, but he started his aviation career in the University of…

Guest: Group Captain Roger Selwyn Holdaway Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of May 2024 Published: 8th of September 2024 Duration: 2 hours, 4 minutes, 13 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Roger Holdaway, a former RNZAF pilot who flew numerous types from the North American Harvard and de Havilland Devon to the Short Sunderland and th…

Guest: Wing Commander Barry ‘Patch’ Nelson RNZAF Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of April 2024 Released: 2024 Duration: 1 hour 8 mins 19 secs This episode is the fifth and last of the recordings from the Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April…

Guest: Don Wilkie Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of April 2024 Released: 14th of August 2024 Duration: 47 mins 56 secs This episode is the fourth of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. Aviation artist …

Guest: Tom Williams Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of April 2024 Released: 9th of June 2024 Duration: 27 mins 36 secs This episode is the third of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. Tom Williams is a …

Guest: Stephen Davies Howard Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of April 2024 Released: 1st of June 2024 Duration: 1 hour 2 mins 37 secs This episode is the second of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell of Legend Aviation at Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, on Sunday 28th of April 2024. St…

Guest: Bevan Dewes of Legend Aviation Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 28th of April 2024 Released: 25th of May 2024 Duration: 32 mins 19 secs This episode is the first of the recordings from the recent Legend Aviation WONZ Forum Meet. This was a gathering of members of the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum, hosted by Bevan Dewes and Lucy Newell o…

Guest: Roy Boston – de Havilland Apprentice and Engineer, and RNZAF Instructor Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of April 2024 Released: 30th of April 2024 Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 45 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with 96-year-old Roy Boston, who was born and grew up in London, and became an apprentice at the de Havilland Aircraft…

Guests: Larry Hill, Andrew White and Tony Hoskins Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 6th of March 2024 Published: 24th of March 2024 Duration: 2 hours, 57 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood marks the 80th Anniversary of The Great Escape by talking with Larry Hill, Andy White and Tony Hoskins. The Great Escape is the name given to a breakout of Allied…

Guest: Sarah Carr (nee Hanna) Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of July 2023 Published: 8th of March 2024 Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes, 5 seconds In this episode of Wings Over Britain, Dave Homewood sat down with Sarah Carr of the Old Flying Machine Company, in her office at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Sarah is the daughter of the legendary pilot, the …

Guest: Ed Taylor, General Manager of Warbirds Over Wanaka Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 4th of March 2024 Released: 4th of March 2024 Duration: 45 minutes 17 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood chats with Ed Taylor about the upcoming three-day Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow over Easter on March 29th, 30th and 31st. The airshow [...]…

Guest: Brendon Deere Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 20th of February 2024 Published: 2nd of March 2024 Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes, 28 seconds In this 300th episode in the Wings Over New Zealand Show series, Dave Homewood talks with Brendon Deere of the Biggin Hill Trust about the beautiful restoration on his ex-RNZAF North American P-51D Mustang NZ…

Guests: Arthur Joplin (No. 617 Squadron pilot) and Ron Mayhill (No. 75 (NZ) Squadron bomb aimer), with Peter Wheeler of the New Zealand Bomber Command Association. Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 29th of August 2013 Published: 26th of February 2024 Duration: 40 minutes, 46 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood dips into his archive and pulls out a 20…

Guest: Denis Sharp and Jim Cosgrove Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 27th of July 2023 Published: 18th of February 2024 Duration: 1 hour minutes, seconds In this episode of Wings Over Britain Dave Homewood is given a guided tour of the remains of former RAF Hunsdon by local historians Denis Sharp and Jim Cosgrove on a drizzly day. Hunsdon was a [...]…

Guest: Jason Webb Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 26th of July 2023 Published: 15th of February 2024 Duration: 16 minutes, 31 seconds In this mini-episode of Wings Over Britain Dave Homewood meets Jason Webb at the Bottisham Airfield Museum, at former RAF Bottisham in Cambridgeshire. The museum presents the history of the wartime station, which has n…

Guest: Rebecca Greenwood Harding Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 25th of July 2023 Published: 6th of February 2024 Duration: 33 minutes, 15 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visited the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, in Cambridgeshire, and caught up with Rebecca Greenwood Harding, the Head of Technological Objects for the collection there. Follo…

Guest: Tony Philpot Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of July 2023 Published: 19th of January 2024 Duration: 50 minutes, 8 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood visits the RAF Hornchurch Heritage Centre, on the site of the former RAF Station Hornchurch, and he talks with the museum’s curator Tony Philpot. RAF Hornchurch is synonymous with the Batt…