{"id":17,"date":"2011-12-18T08:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T08:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-12-12T05:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T05:29:37","slug":"episode-2-don-simms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/2011\/12\/episode-2-don-simms\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 2 &#8211; Don Simms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2110\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/?powerpress_pinw=17-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/wonz\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-content\/uploads\/WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"WONZ_Ep_002_Don_Simms.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/wings-over-new-zealand-show\/id606143097?mt=2&amp;ls=1#episodeGuid=https%3A%2F%2Fcambridgeairforce.org.nz%2FWONZShow%2F%3Fp%3D17\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p class=\"style56\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Dave Homewood<br \/>\n<strong>Guest:<\/strong> Don Simms &#8211; Moderator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/\">Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum<\/a>, former RNZAF Avionics Technicians and Co-Author of the book &#8220;SKYHAWKS&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong> 113 minutes, 5 seconds total<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Topic: <\/strong>We talk about Don&#8217;s career in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an Avionics Technician servicing Bell Iroquois helicopters with No. 3 Squadron and McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawks with No&#8217;s 2 and 75 Squadrons. We also discuss life on those squadrons in his time; the disposal of the Air Combat Wing and the current moves to get the Skyhawks and Macchis into museums; and the book Skyhawks that he co-wrote with journalist Nick Lee-Frampton, published by Willson Scott Publishing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Quick Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/index.cgi?board=civil&amp;action=display&amp;thread=14003\" target=\"_new\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0<\/strong> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willsonscott.biz\/catalogue\/military\/skyhawks-the-history-of-the-rnzaf-skyhawk\/\" target=\"_new\">Link To Don&#8217;s Book &#8220;Skyhawks &#8211; The History of the RNZAF Skyhawk&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Don&#8217;s favourite threads include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/index.cgi?action=display&amp;board=Postwar&amp;thread=7587&amp;page=1\" target=\"_new\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/index.cgi?board=popular&amp;action=display&amp;thread=17594&amp;page=1\">Al Marshall&#8217;s Bristol Freighter Restoration Thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/index.cgi?action=display&amp;board=Postwar&amp;thread=7587&amp;page=1\" target=\"_new\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/a>Anything to do with Skyhawks, which brought him photos, and<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rnzaf.proboards.com\/index.cgi?action=display&amp;board=Postwar&amp;thread=7587&amp;page=1\" target=\"_new\"><strong>\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong><\/a>Anything in the Preservation Area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style56\">Host: Dave Homewood Guest: Don Simms &#8211; Moderator of the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum, former RNZAF Avionics Technicians and Co-Author of the book &#8220;SKYHAWKS&#8221; Duration: 113 minutes, 5 seconds total<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Topic: We talk about Don&#8217;s career in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an Avionics Technician servicing Bell Iroquois helicopters [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,7,18,16,8,4,11,15,14,10,17,5,6,13,9,3],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes","tag-a-4k","tag-author","tag-avionics","tag-bomber","tag-book","tag-don-simms","tag-douglas","tag-fighter","tag-jet","tag-mcdonnell","tag-ohakea","tag-rnzaf","tag-royal-new-zealand-air-force","tag-skyhawk","tag-skyhawks","tag-wings-over-new-zealand","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cambridgeairforce.org.nz\/WONZShow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}