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The Wings Over New Zealand Show
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Martin Hedley Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2025 Published: 27th of June 2025 Duration: 32 minutes, 38 seconds In this episode we hear the final presentation given at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet at Ardmore. The presenter is Martin Hedley, foreman at Pioneer Aero Ltd., the warbird restoration company at Ardmore. And he is talking about the company’s current main project, the Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber from WWII. The Dauntless is being restored from a wreck recovered from Lake Michigan by Taras Lyssenko, General Manager of A and T Recovery, and combining it with parts from a second aircraft that had been a wind machine in the film industry. The project started at Pioneer under the ownership of Jerry Yagen, but he has since handed all his collection over to the care of his museum, the Military Aviation Museum, at Virginia Beach. Quick Links: • The Wings Over New Zealand Forum • Pioneer Aeros Ltd. • Pioneer Aero Ltd. on Facebook • New Zealand Warbirds Association Ltd • NZ Warbirds Association of Facebook Thanks to Stu Russell for the recording. The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud. Above: Photos from Martin’s presentation, taken by Phil Treweek. The Dauntless when it was pulled from Lake Michigan. (From the Pioneer Aero Ltd. Facebook page). Martin unwrapping the Dauntless when it first arrived in New Zealand. (From the Pioneer Aero Ltd. Facebook page). The Pioneer Aero Ltd. team with the Dauntless fuselage in 2023, with Martin standing in the cockpit. (From the Pioneer Aero Ltd. Facebook page). There is also a video version of this podcast below, thanks to Stu Russell.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Phillip Harrall AFC, MPhil, FRAeS Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 15th of June 2025 Duration: 41 minute, 36 seconds In this episode we hear an edited down presentation given at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet at Wigram by Phillip Harrall, a former Royal Navy Observer. Phillip was born in New Zealand but his career took him into the Royal Navy, where his father was a pilot. After his training, Phillip flew as observer in the Hawker Hunter as lead in to the Blackburn Buccaneer, which he enjoyed immensely till a medical issue saw him move to the Rotary Wing of the FAA. He ended up flying in the Sea King and the Westland Lynx helicopters for a lot of his career, on and off ships. He was involved in weapon development work, and when the Argentinians invaded the Falkland Islands he and a team working on the Sea Skua missile and other developments rushed them into service. Phillip was deployed to the Falklands in command of a Lynx, and he ended up involved in several combat actions, which he describes. He is Secretary of the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society New Zealand Division, and Vice President of the RAeS New Zealand Division. And he is a volunteer at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand. There is also a YouTube version of this recording so you can see the PowerPoint slides that Phillip used. Quick Links: • The Wings Over New Zealand Forum • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook • The Royal Aeronautical Society New Zealand Division – Canterbury Branch The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud. Thanks to Allan Udy for his help with the audio recording. Thanks also to Phil Treweek.…
Guest: Bob McGarry Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 8th of June 2025 Duration: 58 minutes, 19 seconds In this episode we hear a presentation given at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet at Wigram by licensed aeronautical engineer Bob McGarry. He talks about his career in aviation, which included the RNZAF, and working with Arch Finch at Rotorua where he learned his trade. He then worked for Fieldair in their engine shop at Palmerston North. He then went to Christchurch to run the engine shop for Airwork (N.Z.) Ltd. Next he set up his own aero maintenance business with Alan Mincher at West Melton airfield. It was while he was there that he decided he needed a project, and he acquired the remains of Simmonds Spartan ZK-ABK back to airworthy condition. The Spartan was New Zealand’s first airliner, having operated originally with New Zealand Airways Ltd of Dunedin in 1929. Bob tells the story of the restoration in some detail. There is also a YouTube version so you can see the photos, which have been extracted from Bob’s PowerPoint presentation. Quick Links: • The Wings Over New Zealand Forum • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook • The Ashburton Aviation Museum (now home of the Spartan) • The Ashburton Aviation Museum on Facebook The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud. Thanks to Allan Udy for his help with the audio recording. Thanks also to Phil Treweek.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Anthony Galbraith and Stephen Carruthers Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 23rd of May 2025 Duration: 48 minutes, 34 seconds In this episode recorded at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, during the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet held there on the 23rd of February 2025, we hear from Anthony Galbraith and Stephen Carruthers on their project to bring the 1928 Gloster Grebe biplane fighter back from extinction. They have formed the SHW Aviation Trust, named after Sir Henry Wigram who had donated the money that purchased the New Zealand Permanent Air Force’s first Grebe. The trust is working to gather parts, remnants, drawings, photos, and history of the Grebes and the people who flew and maintained them. Quick Links: • The Wings Over New Zealand Forum • NZ501 Gloster Grebe on Facebook • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud. Side view of Grebe NZ501 at Wigram Aerodrome. Air Force Museum of New Zealand WgF139. Here is a video version so you can see the slides.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Chris Newey Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2025 Published: 19th of May 2025 Duration: 47 minutes, 23 seconds In this episode we hear a presentation given by Chris Newey, who talks about his latest book The First Flight – The Origins of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron. The book covers the New Zealand Government’s purchase of 30 new Vickers Wellington bombers in the late 1930’s, and the creation of a special unit, The New Zealand Squadron, who formed in the UK to fly them. Made up from RNZAF members and New Zealanders who had been serving in the Royal Air Force, they were to train up on the new type and then ferry them across the world to New Zealand in five flights of six. However the gathering clouds of war put paid to that original plan, and the aircraft and men were offered to the British Government in August 1939 to form part of Britain defence should war come. In April 1940 the New Zealand Squadron was renumbered as No. 75 (NZ) Squadron RAF, and the beginning of a legendary fighting unit began. Chris has done extensive research into the New Zealand Squadron and its originals, and along the way he has discovered a lot of previously unknown history, and dispelled a number of myths. The book is highly recommended. The First Flight: The Origins of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron By Chris Newey Publisher : Aviation Books Ltd. (2 December 2024) Hardback/Paperback: 177 pages ISBN-10 : 1915335493 ISBN-13 : 978-1915335494 Dimensions – 27.9 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm Available online from: The Great British Book Shop (hardback only): www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the-first-flight Amazon (soft cover only): www.amazon.com/gp/product/1915335493/ Local (NZ) stock of the hardback version now available – you can contact Chris Newey at chris@foodworks.co.nz The per copy NZ price is NZ$56.35 (incl. GST) – add $12.50 for packaging & postage – economy tracked courier, anywhere within NZ – add $5.70 for Rural Delivery Quick Links: • New Zealand Warbirds Association Ltd • NZ Warbirds Association of Facebook Line-up of New Zealand Squadron Wellingtons at RAF Station Feltwell, 1939. NZ302 second from the right. Air Force Museum of New Zealand. Chris Newey during the presentation. (Phil Treweek photo) Thanks to Stuart Russell for the video and sound recording. The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Rob Booth Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2025 Published: 13th of May 2025 Duration: 30 minutes, 18 seconds In this episode we hear a presentation given at the Wings Over New Zealand 20th Anniversary Forum Meet at NZ Warbirds Inc., Ardmore, by Rob Booth, a former Warbirds pilot and owner. He is talking about the Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 ZK-SFR, which he and fellow NZ Warbirds pilots Steve Taylor and John Greenstreet brought into New Zealand in 1986, and had restored to fly. Later Grant Biel bought into the syndicate when Steve and John dropped out. The restoration was carried out at Ardmore by Bruce Coulter, who was assisted by Warren Denholm (then of Gulf Aeronautics, now much better known as owner of Avspecs Ltd.). The aircraft was very popular on the New Zealand airshow scene through the 1990s, during which Rob was the main display pilot of the Sea Fury. Hawker Sea Fury ZK-SFR over the Southern Alps. (Rob Booth collection) Rob Booth during the talk at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet, Ardmore. (Phil Treweek photo) The Sea Fury while it as a Hawker Fury in service with the Iraqi Air Force. (Rob Booth collection) Here is a video version of this presentation, filmed by Stuart Russell for the WONZ Show. Quick Links: • New Zealand Warbirds Association Ltd • NZ Warbirds Association of Facebook Here is a previous WONZ Forum Meet presentation by fellow Sea Fury owner-pilot Steve Taylor talking about the aircraft. https://youtu.be/chasI7W-tMU?si=SfDvyXVBaQ5R3bsm Thanks to Stu Russell for the recordings. Photos below are from Rob Booth’s collection, and show the aircraft when they purchased it, and the restoration and then when it was flying around New Zealand.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Andrew Brian of the Helicopter Heritage Museum Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 4th of May 2025 Duration: 32 minutes, 24 seconds In this episode we hear from Andrew Brian of the Helicopter Heritage Museum. This is a talk given by Andrew during the Wings Over New Zealand 20th Anniversary Forum Meet held at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand in Christchurch. Andrew talks about how he literally stumbled into the saving, restoration and preservation of helicopters that have flown in New Zealand, and the various types he has rescued. His hobby has developed into a proper scale collection with the backing of businessman Daniel Smith. As the talk had a very visual component, the photos shown on Andrew’s PowerPoint have been added to a YouTube version of the talk, and also are displayed below. Quick Links: • The New Zealand Helicopter Heritage Museum website • The New Zealand Helicopter Heritage Museum on Facebook • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook Thanks to Allan Udy for his assistance with recording this episode. The music is Wild Flower by Joachim Karud.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Mark O’Sullivan Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 17th of April 2025 Published: 26th of April 2025 Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes, 42 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood sits down with warbirds pilot Mark O’Sullivan at Omaka to talk about his aviation passion. Mark was born and bred in Blenheim, and he learned to fly with the Marlborough Aero Club at Omaka Aerodrome. His desire to fly warbirds had been sparked when he was a kid and saw Robbie Booth flying his Sea Fury at an airshow at Woodbourne. Mark talks about getting into flying the Tiger Moth and Nanchang in the local syndicate, and then he progressed onto flying Harvards, with Frank Parker in Harvard NZ1065 (ZK-ENF) from Ardmore, and the local Omaka-based ex-SAAF Harvard II, 7660, ZK-XSA. He then had the opportunity to purchase 7660, and this Harvard became the basis of what would later become the basis of his collection. He also owns a Cessna C185F which he calls the family wagon, which he uses to go places with his wife Kate and children George and Mila. Mark also purchased the ex-Wanaka “Red Bull” Pitts S-2B Special, which he rebuilt himself and got it flying again as ZK-STX. He now flies it for fun, and he has been working up New Zealand’s first Pitts Special formation display team with Andy Love, Lincoln Jones and Ross Brodie. This is a great up-and-coming team to watch out for at airshows in the future. And perhaps Mark’s best known an most loved aeroplane is the Yakovlev Yak-3U “Steadfast”, ZK-YOV, the small fighter with the big radial engine, and the awesome smoke trails that form rings and shapes in the sky. Mark initially owned Steadfast in partnership with fellow Omaka resident Ronan Harvey, but recently Ronan sold his share to another partner. Mark displays Steadfast at warbirds airshows around the country and has wowed audiences at airshows such as Classic Fighters, Warbirds Over Wanaka, Wings Over Wairarapa, and recently also Ardmore’s Warbirds On Parade open day. Quick Links: • St Clair Estate Wines Mark O’Sullivan taking off in Yak-3U Steadfast during Warbirds Over Wanaka 2024. Mark O’Sullivan and his Pitts Special ZK-STX, with his Cessna 185 and the syndicate Tiger Moth that he learned taildragger flying in behind. Mark’s Harvard ZK-XSA. Mark and his Cessna C185F. The Yak 3U ‘Steadfast’, in Ronan Harvey’s hangar. The cockpits in Mark’s Pitts S-2B Special, ZK-STX. Another shot of the Harvard in Mark’s hangar. A selection of photos of Mark in Steadfast taken at Warbirds Over Wanaka 2024 by Dave Homewood…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Steve Subritzky Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2025 Published: 11th of April 2025 Duration: 44 minutes, 35 seconds In this episode we hear a presentation given by Steve Subritzky and Dave Homewood about the world’s last existing Vickers Vincent biplane bomber. Steve, who is the Aviation Manager at the Museum of Transport And Technology (MOTAT), has been piecing together the puzzle that is the world’s only Vickers Vincent for many years in his spare time after work, without the aid of any drawings as they no longer seem to exist. The Vincent, minus its wings (which are still yet to be restored), had been transported from North Shore Airfield down to Ardmore to go on a special temporary display in the New Zealand Warbirds Hangar from March to May 2025, so it was on display during this event. Dave gives a background to the Vincent as a type, and details the specific aircraft, NZ311 (previously K6357 with the Royal Air Force). And then Steve details how it was rediscovered and dug out of the ground on a riverbank in Marton after being buried for over two decades. Steve talks about the restoration of this rare aircraft, and the challenges along the way. Quick Links: • New Zealand Warbirds Association Ltd • NZ Warbirds Association of Facebook Thanks to Stu Russell for the recording. Above: Steve Subritzky’s magnificent Vickers Vincent. (Nick Sheehan photo) Below: Photos from the event, taken by Phil Treweek. Steve Subritzky, left, and Dave Homewood, right, during the presentation. And below is a video version of the presentation, filmed by Stu Russell.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Kenn Cox, former RNZAF jet fighter pilot Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 3rd of April 2025 Duration: 44 minutes, 40 seconds In this episode we hear from Kenn Cox, the second speaker from the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum meet at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, at Wigram, Christchurch. Kenn was a young ‘bog rat’ Vampire pilot on No. 75 Squadron RNZAF in the late 1960s, and found himself as one of the ten pilots selected to be posted to Cecil Field in the USA in 1970 to convert onto the McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawk, which had just been purchased by the New Zealand Government to replace the English Electric Canberras. Kenn talks about the trip to the USA, the introduction to US Navy training, learning to fly the Skyhawk, and various adventures in the USA during the months that the group of pilots was there. He also talks about operating the Skyhawk in the early days of its New Zealand service, navigating them around the country, and taking them up to Singapore for their first international exercises. Quick Links: • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand • The Air Force Museum of New Zealand on Facebook Thanks to Allan Udy for his assistance with recording this episode. Above: Brand new RNZAF A-4K and TA-4K Skyhawks in the USA, Dec 1969, before the Kiwis took them over. McDonnell Douglas photo, via Don Simms. Above: Kenn Cox during his talk at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand. Dave Homewood photo. Above: A brand new TA-4K Skyhawk NZ6251 in December 1969, before the Kiwis arrived in the USA. McDonnell Douglas photo, via Don Simms. The chosen ten pilots from No. 75 Squadron RNZAF in front of the newly delivered TA-4K “T-bird” Skyhawk NZ6251. Left to right are: Graham Thompson, Ken Gayfer, John Woolford, Roger Henstock, Mike Callanan, Kenn Cox, Murray Abel, Ross Ewing, John Scrimgeour and Trevor Bland. Photo via Don Simms. Training with the US Navy. Left to right, standing: A US Navy Instructor, John Woolford, Ross Ewing, Murray Abel, and Mike Callinan. Seated: Roger Henstock, Trevor Bland, John Scrimgeour, and Ken Gayfer. Squatted: Kenn Cox, and Graham Thompson. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Handover for the first RNZAF Skyhawks from McDonnell Douglas to the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Photo via Don Simms. Above: RNZAF Skyhawks lined up at Cecil Field, NAS Jacksonville, Florida, next to US Navy Skyhawks. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Squadron Leader John Scimgeour, left, and Flight Lieutenant Trevor Bland, third from left, filling in Form 700 logbooks, with a US Navy instructor and an RNZAF Sergeant. Photo via Don Simms. Above: RNZAF Skyhawks and a US Navy tug with a generator on the flight line at NAS Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Above: An RNZAF Skyhawk flying with an incognito Israeli A-4H Skyhawk. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Air-to-air refuelling with the Buddy Pack. Photo via Don Simms. Above: One of the RNZAF No. 75 Squadron pilots in a Skyhawk. Photo via Don Simms. Above: One of the RNZAF A-4K’s, NZ6201, on the production line. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Skyhawks for the RNZAF under construction at Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, United States. Marrying fuselage to the wing of NZ6201. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Onboard the USS Okinawa. Photos via Don Simms. Above: The USS Okinawa berthed in Auckland as seen from Iroquois overhead. RNZAF Official Photo via Don Simms. Protesters and NZ6254 RNZAF Official Photo via Don Simms. The Skyhawks being towed from the Auckland wharves to RNZAF Base Whenuapai. Photo via Don Simms. Above: Stripping the sealant from Skyhawk NZ6210 at Whenuapai. Photo via Don Simms. Above: John Scrimshaw alights from NZ6254 at Ohakea after delivering aircraft from Whenuapai RNZAF Official via Paul Harrison Above: The Commanding Officer of No. 75 Squadron RNZAF, Squadron Leader John Scrimshaw, left, and Group Captain Harold (Mo) Moss after arrival of first Skyhawk at Ohakea on 21 May 1970. RNZAF Official Photo via Don Simms. Above: The A-4K Skyhawk cockpit in its original form. Photo via Don Simms. Above: The first arrested landing at Ohakea, 1970. RNZAF Official Photo via Don Simms. Above: A-4’s and Canberra’s Ohakea taken from 75 Sqn hanger roof 1970 Pat Leggitt Photo via Don Simms. Above: A-4 line up Ohakea 1970 Pat Leggitt Photo via Don Simms. Below: Some more ephemera from the early days of the RNZAF Skyhawks, via Don Simms.…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 2nd of March 2025 Published: 28th of March 2025 Duration: 40 minutes, 42 seconds In this episode NZ Warbirds president Frank Parker is heard talking about flying the various WWII fighters he’s flown during his career. Frank was the first speaker at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet at Ardmore on the 2nd of [...]…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Squadron Leader Paul “Skids” Harrison, RNZAF Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 18th of March 2025 Published: 21st of March 2025 Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes, 4 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood talks with Squadron Leader Paul “Skids” Harrison, who is currently an instructor with No. 14 Squadron RNZAF on the Texan II’s, but he also has a [...]…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet – Wigram Guest: Wings Commander Brett Marshall, Museum Director at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 23rd of February 2025 Published: 17th of March 2025 Duration: 44 minutes, 49 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood introduced Brett Marshall, the first speaker at the WONZ 20th Anniversary Forum Meet – Wigram. [...]…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Craig Compain, ex-RNZAF and ex-Royal Navy Fighter Pilot Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 9th of January 2025 Published: 9th of January 2025 Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes, 58 seconds In this episode Dave Homewood speaks with Craig Compain, who grew up in Wanganui as an aviation-minded kid and ATC cadet, and he joined the Royal New Zealand Air [...]…
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The Wings Over New Zealand Show

Guest: Dr. Adam Claasen Host: Dave Homewood Recorded: 12th of November 2024 Published: 28th of November 2024 Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes, 26 seconds This episode is a recording of a presentation given by historian and author Dr. Adam Claasen at the Resthaven Community Hall in Cambridge, on the evening of Tuesday the 12th of November 2024. [...]…
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