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Episode 163 – The Forum 3

Published 8 years, 5 months ago

Description

Guest: Dee Bond, Mike Slack and Brett Nicholls

Field Report Guest: Brendon Deere

Host: Dave Homewood

Recorded: 25th of September 2017

Released: 26th of September 2017

Duration: 2 hours 41 minutes 5 seconds

In this episode three more aviators join Dave Homewood on The Forum panel to discuss news and views, and tell some great aviation stories. The panel in this episode are Dee Bond, Brett Nicholls and Mike Slack.

Dee is a Captain and co-owner in the Catalina ZK-PBY syndicate. She’s also an air racer, an adventurer, a precision flying expert, an aerobatics pilot and an airfield owner, among other things.

Brett is a warbird pilot. Formerly the owner of two BAC167 Strikemasters, he also owns Harvard NZ1065 outright, and he is a syndicate member in Harvard NZ1052. He is on the committee for New Zealand Warbirds Association Inc. and is a big advocate for flying warbirds.

Mike is an Air Traffic Controller, working in New Zealand’s busiest control tower at Auckland International Airport. He is also a keen aerobatics pilot and competitor, and he’s a member of the Giles 202 ZK-NUT syndicate.

News Discussed:

• Graeme Frew’s Yakovlev Yak 3M “Full Noise” at Reno, Nevada

• Full Noise on the WONZ Forum

• Polikarpov I-16 For Warbirds Over Wanaka

• Gavin Johnston RIP

• Bring Our Birds Home Wanaka Announcement

• Pioneer Aero’s de Havilland Hornet Project

• Mosquito Pathfinder Trust

• Auckland Fuel Crisis

• Sanson Man Moaning About Jet Noise From Ohakea

• Eurofighter Typhoon Crash

Additional to the discussion it seems this was not the first fatal Typhoon crash, here’s another from two weeks ago!
• Saudi Typhoon Crash