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Post by ErrolC on Apr 30, 2012 18:56:08 GMT 12
Someone from the Met Service about aviation forecasting.
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Post by dakman on Apr 30, 2012 19:26:16 GMT 12
Mr Grimmer on his missing aircraft research ?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 30, 2012 22:43:56 GMT 12
Some great ideas coming in. Thanks. Adding these to the long list.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 13:52:51 GMT 12
Wanganui man Stewart Frame flew Wellingtons with 221 Sqn RAF over North Africa. He trained on Tiger Moths and Oxfords in NZ before being shipped off to the UK. I reckon he'd be great for the podcast: www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/news/remembering-days-in-the-air/1608222/I have his phone number if you're keen :-) Kermit Weeks on his Kiwi visits could be cool? |
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Post by errolmartyn on Nov 19, 2012 14:46:09 GMT 12
Wanganui man Stewart Frame flew Wellingtons with 221 Sqn RAF over North Africa. He trained on Tiger Moths and Oxfords in NZ before being shipped off to the UK. I reckon he'd be great for the podcast: www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/news/remembering-days-in-the-air/1608222/I have his phone number if you're keen :-) Kermit Weeks on his Kiwi visits could be cool? From Colin Hanson’s By Such Deeds - Honours and Awards in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1923-1999 : FRAME, Flight Lieutenant James Stewart, DFC. NZ41982; Born Mosgiel, 26 Jul 1916; RNZAF 9 Feb 1941 to 5 Jul 1945; Pilot. Citation Distinguished Flying Cross (13 May 1943): [221 Sqn RAF (Wellington)] Acting Flight Lieutenant Frame has completed 52 sorties, which have included numerous successful shipping reconnaissances. Last October, he enabled his formation to make a successful attack on a convoy of merchant vessels and their escorts. On a flight in February, of this year he located four separate convoys, and, in the face of fierce opposition from escorting destroyers, shadowed the convoys which were later attacked by forty aircraft. Last month, on a shipping search in the Trápani/Palermo area, he located a convoy of four merchant ships escorted by 6 destroyers and five other vessels. Despite heavy fire from the convoy, Flight Lieutenant Frame shadowed it and reported its position, and the ships were successfully attacked. Flight Lieutenant Frame has shown great skill and courage, and he has performed valuable service. Member of the ‘Goldfish Club’. On the night of 22 Jul 1942, operating from their forward base at Gianaclis, Egypt, his crew were detailed to search for a German convoy west of Crete. When some 30 miles off the African coast, near El Alamein, their port motor abruptly stopped while cruising at 1000 feet. They turned for base slowly losing height due to the weight of fuel on board, which included two over-load tanks in the bomb bay. About two minutes after engine failure they struck the water and all six crew members safely made it into the large aircraft dinghy. Numerous aircraft were heard in their vicinity and when they estimated that one was circling, hopefully trying to find them, they fired their one, and only, distress signal. In return the aircraft fired off ‘the colours of the day’ and promptly departed the scene, evidently thinking that they were being fired on! However an RN motor launch, based on Alexandria and on patrol to Matruh, sighted their distress signal and investigated, rescued them and took them to Alexandria. They returned to base three days after ditching, thereby also qualifying for the ‘Late Arrivals Club’. Awarded the Malta (George Cross) Fiftieth Anniversary Medal for service on Malta May-Jul 1942 and Jan-Apr 1943. Errol |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 19, 2012 19:08:52 GMT 12
Hi Zac,
Thanks for this suggestion, from what you and Errol has posted I am sure Mr Frame would be a really fascinating gentleman to interview. However I am not likely to get down to Wanganui any time soon, and I really don't think interviews by phone work well enough in this podcast format, especially with an older genetleman who's hearing may not be 100% too. I have been trying to avoid phone interviews as much as possible lately for the series to try to keep the sound quality up. Is there any chance he might come up this way? Did you record him when you interviewed him?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 19, 2012 19:09:42 GMT 12
By the way, I have loads of show ideas still being worked on, and some lined up to record. In fact I am recording one the day after tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2012 11:46:58 GMT 12
Sadly no, as it was by phone and I didn't know how to connect my recorder. I totally understand, and his hearing is indeed less than 100%. Thanks for the info, Errol!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 27, 2018 15:12:38 GMT 12
It has been quite some time now since this thread has had any input and it was started way back when I first started the WONZ Show in December 2011 (now 173 shows ago, not counting the Live shows!). So I think it was time to reflect back and see how I have done with the requests....
Those people mentioned who HAVE appeared on the WONZ Show:
Neville 'Shorty' Mines
Wal Denholm (several times)
Frank Parker
Dave "Moeggo" Johnson (regarding Wingnut Wings), Graham Orphan
Bruce Cooke
ex Chief of Air Force/Air Staff
Anyone with a connection to Fletchers - several
Something about Betsy - Geoff and Jessica Cooper have appeared on several occasions
Peter Wheeler (Several times)
Rev Richard Waugh
Someone from the Met Service about aviation forecasting (sort of, I had a wartime RNZAF Met Officer on)
Gavin Grimmer
Those people mentioned who HAVE NOT appeared on the WONZ Show:
Gene DeMarco
Jay McIntyre
Tim Sullivan
Hallett Griffin
John King
Alan Beck
Ray Mulqueen
Someone from the School of Strategic Studies at Vic Uni
Someone from Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand
Doug and Hamish Brown
David Vincent of Vincent Aviation
Stewart Frame
Kermit Weeks
Well it looks about split even there. I guess I have not done too badly. There are a few there who I will never be able to get on the show, Doug Brown is no longer with us, looks like Mr Frame died too, and I doubt Mr de Marco would be keen. I seem to recall Vincent Aviation no longer exists?
I'd love to get Kermit on the show. Several times at Ohakea I have thought about approaching him about an interview but have been too nervous, other than simply saying hello. I have broached the idea with John King but we've never gotten round to it yet. every time I see Jay at Omaka he's flat out busy. I'd love to do an interview with Ray, he's a great bloke, but he lives in Aussie somewhere. I'd also like to meet Hallett sometime. I have heard he is here on the forum but I am not sure.
Anyway, who now would you want to hear appear as a guest on the WONZ Show? Send your 2018 suggestions and i'll see if I can get any of them on the show. They can be repeats of those on this page or new ones....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 15:47:02 GMT 12
I think Stewart Frame died a year or so after his book was published.
I do have a few suggestions, apologies if these have already appeared:
Ray Deerness
Bill Black
Richmond and/or John Harding
Ian Brodie
Colin and Maeva Smith
Dave Phillips
Keith Skilling
John Lamont
John Funnell
John Lanham
Graham Bethell
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 27, 2018 16:21:32 GMT 12
Thanks Zac. John Lanham and Dave Phillips have previously appeared on the show.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 28, 2018 16:35:51 GMT 12
I run into one of Harry Wigley's daughters from time to time.
I know her quite well enough to chat to her, but have never got her contact details.
She has told me a few interesting stories about growing up in her family and having all sorts of adventures in the great outdoors with her father, more often than not also involving aeroplanes.
If I run into her again (quite possible, as I regularly bump into her in the Gold Pass enclosure at Warbirds Over Wanaka), I'll ask her if she'd be interested in telling her stories for the WONZ show.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2018 20:05:52 GMT 12
After rewatching a certain 1986 BBC doco series for the umpteenth time I had an idea for a WONZ Show interview: Steve Moore, former RNZAF test pilot and I believe at one point commander of RNZAF Base Ohakea?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 21, 2018 10:50:59 GMT 12
Yes I have had Steve Moore in the back of my mind for some time.
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Post by planecrazy on Apr 8, 2022 10:20:14 GMT 12
Just listened to Don's great Falkland's war story, got me thinking how about Don and or
other RNZAF A4 pilots, maintenance, ground staff. Maybe one has already been done?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 8, 2022 10:57:02 GMT 12
Just listened to Don's great Falkland's war story, got me thinking how about Don and or other RNZAF A4 pilots, maintenance, ground staff. Maybe one has already been done? Don Simms - Episode 2 cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2011/12/episode-2-don-simms/Barry "Patch" Nelson (A-4K pilot) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2013/05/episode-44-barry-patch-nelson/Forum Meet 2014 Part 4 - Includes Ian "Iggy" Wood (A-4K pilot) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2014/03/episode-63-wonz-forum-meet-2014-part-four/Mark Heliwell (A-4K pilot) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2014/11/episode-75-mark-helliwell/No. 75 Squadron Reunion - includes Nick Osborne (A-4K pilot) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2016/10/75-Reunion/Don Simms on Skyhawks cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2017/02/wigram-don-simms/Classic Flyers Forum Meet 1 - Includes Des Underwood, former RNZAF Engineer Officer on Kahu upgrades cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2018/03/classic-flyers-meet-1/Classic Flyers Forum Meet 2 - Includes Group Captain John Mathewson (A-4K pilot, CO) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2018/03/classic-flyers-meet-2/Phil Barnes (A-4K pilot) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2021/11/wonz-248-great-escapes-3-phil-barnes/Great Escapes: Safety And Surface (includes much about the A-4K emergency escape systems) cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WONZShow/2022/02/wonz-253-great-escapes-safety-and-surface/There are possibly other Skyhawk related episodes too, these are the ones that come to mind. However, don't get me wrong, I am also keen to record more RNZAF A-4K stories from both the pilots and the groundcrew. Same with our other jets, from the Vampire nd Venom to the Canberra, Macchi and Strikemaster). So there should hopefully be more jet stories in the future. |
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Post by planecrazy on Apr 8, 2022 11:35:20 GMT 12
Whoa thanks Dave, ask a silly question get a sensible answer, some listening in there,
love these thank you they are great!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 8, 2022 12:08:28 GMT 12
My pleasure Peter.
Any more ideas are welcome, though not guaranteed that I can make them happen.
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 8, 2022 12:18:17 GMT 12
My pleasure Peter. Any more ideas are welcome, though not guaranteed that I can make them happen. Jason Easthope |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 8, 2022 12:19:38 GMT 12
I'd love to interview Jason Easthope. Does anyone have a contact for him?
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