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Yet again Nelson showed off what a great place it is and that it has more sun shine hours then other place in New Zealand. With perfect weather and a nice steady wind off the sea, it was great times had by all that came to Neale [...]
The Peter Line Kite crew inside the 30 meter long Blue Whale kite holding a 8 meter long Humpback whale kite. From left-Peter Lynn, Simon Chisnall, Gav Mulvay, Pam Shanahan and Elwyn Lynn. Absent from photo Craig Hansen and Jenny Cook.
Dear faithful existing customers and prospective new Kite owners. We have something important to say, we have thought long and hard about this. Something that has been difficult to work through, for many reasons, one of which is not devaluing the faithfulness of our long term friends and customers, [...]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Slum-boys-cut-Kiwi-stars-kite-in-Ahmedabad/articleshow/7255581.cms Check this out AHMEDABAD: This was Peter Lynn’s 600th international kite festival. Known among the world s kite manufacturers, Lynn, from New Zealand, was flying two inflated tiger-shaped kites, each worth 400 US dollars, on the bank of the Sabarmati river, when a puny paper kite came from [...]
An annoying problem finally identified and cured Ever since I’ve been making large ray shaped soft kites (from 1987) they’ve been afflicted by a tendency to fall off to one side or the other. And it’s not just my ram air inflated ray type kites that have [...]
On the 23rd of December Peter Lynn turned 64. Elwyn, Peters lovely wife, laid on a great spread for all the gang and we helped Peter celebrate in style. I managed to take a couple of pictures early on in the evening. “When I get older losing [...]
We had an offer from our good friend Kevin in the USA to make a skin of a Rokkaku kite, which would then be finished by Simon Chisnall (designer of the Sun and Moon, Crab, Cuttlefish) here in the Peter Lynn Factory in New Zealand. It has [...]
Craig, Steff (www.facebook.com/airbanners) and a few others went to fly and promote the awarness to Prostate cancer the other week in New Brighton (New Zealand), by flying a banner, growing some amazing moustaches, (eeekkk) and taking kids, YOUNG AND OLD (79 years old was the oldest) for [...]
Craig reciently went to fly kites for the school camp of one of the local junior schools, and to give the kids a talk on soft kites. Huge excitement with a very strong southerly lifting the front of Craigs van clear of the springs. Eventually the 8 [...]