Episode 94 – WOA – The Australian National Aviation Museum
The Wings Over New Zealand Show
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Show Notes
Guests: Dave Sodastrom, Ewan McArthur and Ashley Briggs
Host: Dave Homewood and James Kightly
Recorded: 14th of November 2015, at Moorabbin, Australia
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 46 seconds
In this episode the “Wings Over Australia” co-hosts Dave Homewood and James Kightly visit The Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin Airport near Melbourne, in Australia. Here they’re given a guided tour by the enthusiastic team members Dave “Soda” Sodastrom, Ewan McArthur and Ashley Briggs around the museum. It’s a huge collection, well worth a visit, and some of the highlights featured in this episode are the Fairey Firefly, the Bristol Beaufighter, the Douglas C-50 Dakota, the Vickers Viscount and the General Dynamics F-111 cockpit.
The Museum Entrance (J. Kightly)
The CAC Wirraway sitting out the front of the museum (Dave Homewood)
Show Host Dave Homewood with the Wirraway, and sits in the cockpit (both photos James Kightly)
Inside the Wirraway cockpit (Dave Homewood)
The Boeing 737 Cockpit Section (Dave Homewood)
The CAC Ceres (Dave Homewood)
The CAC Winjeel RAAF trainer (Dave Homewood)
The Mirage (Dave Homewood)
The Percival Prentice and the Auster (Dave Homewood)
The Fairey Firefly (Dave Homewood)
WONZ Show host Dave Homewood in the Firefly cockpit interviewing Dave Sodastrom
The Douglas Dakota (Dave Homewood)
The museum’s DC-3 in service with Ansett Airlines. [Via ANAM]
The Vickers Viscount, with Co-host James Kightly in the pilot’s seat (Dave Homewood)
Dave ‘Soda’ Soderstrom in the Viscount cockpit, and James’s view of the floor (James Kightly)
The Australian National Aviation Museum’s Vickers Viscount when loaned to a fun park ‘Wobbies World’. [Via ANAM]
Dave and ‘Soda’ with the F-111 Cockpit (James Kightly)
The famous F-111 ‘Dump & Burn’ as described in the podcast, here seen at the Airshows Down Under Avalon show of 2007. (James Kightly)
The Beaufighter, including the interior (Dave Homewood, and James Kightly)
Dave interviews Ewan McArthur about the Beaufighter; and a happy Ewan, museum secretary and publicist, on the Beaufighter wing. (James Kightly)
