Harry De Haan

Harry De Haan

2018-05-01T05:07:25+12:00June 24th, 2010|What's New??|

I’ve sent two new photos of me. I am buying the new reactor 2 kite, already in my bag 3.5 and 4.4, colour blue, white, gray. Reactor 1 size 2.2 and 2.9 and 3.8 and 4.9 and 6.4. My oldest son Rick 13 is also kitebugging the last few [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – April 2010

2018-08-05T23:25:40+12:00March 30th, 2010|Newsletter|

Going Fast on a Kite Buggy. 28th March ’10. I’m in a 777 somewhere above the Pacific, heading for the Mojhave desert at 1100km/hr to go buggying for a week (NABX 20th anniversary celebration of the development of the modern kite buggy). Yes, 1100km/hr; because there’s a tailwind of [...]

India Gujarat International Kite Festival

2018-05-01T05:17:16+12:00February 5th, 2010|What's New??|

Recently Pam Shanahan and I, (Simon Chisnall) attended the Gujarat kite festival from the 10th to the 14th of January 2010. I think it is well worth it for any kite flyer. The festival is to celebrate the Indian festival of Uttaraayan – the end of a [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – January 2010

2022-03-10T17:42:11+13:00January 7th, 2010|Newsletter|

I Blame the Chinese (At least it’s a change from blaming America). Specifically: at 105 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton New Zealand between the hours of 12noon and 12.30pm on Wednesday the 15th of October 2008, Tan Xi Bo and Wang Xiaping did fail to prevent one blue ultra light [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – December 09

2022-03-10T17:42:22+13:00November 30th, 2009|Newsletter|

How NOT to get invited back to Kite Festivals. ‘orrible weather here; our coldest October since 1943 and November’s even freezinger. It’s 8 degrees today and this is summertime and we’re on the same latitude as the south of France. Our warming seems to have been stolen- probably it’s [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – November 09

2018-08-05T23:26:26+12:00October 31st, 2009|Newsletter|

The PL Kite Economy. Herman & JeannetMichel DekkerJenny CookCraig HansenSimon Chisnall & Cuttlefish kite I’ve now been back in New Zealand for nearly four weeks, intending not to travel away again until after Xmas. Three months uninterrupted workshop time!: Winch systems for UKS, the next Stirling engine [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – October 09

2022-03-10T17:42:37+13:00September 28th, 2009|Newsletter|

Rip-Offs. A Chinese Allegory: Long ago in a land far away there lived a very poor couple. They had nothing except a one roomed shack to live in and a raised platform for sleeping on. One evening the husband was awoken by an intruder. There’s a thief in our [...]

Peter Lynn Newsletter – September 09

2018-08-05T23:26:59+12:00August 31st, 2009|Newsletter|

Errata Yes, mistakes have been made! Religion for one thing: faith based beliefs are a really really bad idea- and nothing will persuade me that this isn’t so. Climate change for another. What if we’re about to tip the planet into meltdown?- and what about if we’re not? And [...]

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