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Speaker 1: Really sad news over the weekend the loss of a mid Canterbury icon kite maker. Peter Lynn, passed away from terminal cancer aged eighty. Another Peter, Peter Whitehead, is the local president of the New Zealand Kite Flyers Association. Morning to you, good morning. How did you come to know Peter Lynn?
00:00:21
Speaker 2: Oh? It was about forty years ago when the New Zealand Kite Flyers was created. So Peter was well making big kites at the time and lots of the octopus. So there was an event in Wellington which I was not at, but Bob mays Moore was to do with the local Willington kite flyers and they were talking and Peter ended up donating some money so that we could create New Zealand Kite Flyers Association. And as soon as that was created, I met him. So I've known him for a very long time.
00:01:09
Speaker 1: What sort of legacy does he leave? How do you feel that Peter should be remembered?
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Okay, well, when when we were flying kites, you know, forty years ago, most every kite just about had six in it, and Peter was selling the kites even then. I bought myself a six meter box kite of his and I can well remember traveling around the world with it and it weighed about seventeen kilos, you know, a hell of a job. And a few years later, in about nineteen ninety something, we all went to Thailand and that was the first major first time I think that we're all traveled with some inflatable kites and we had an octopus and we could just take that out of the bag, two of us hold it that the air in a way it went, you know, it took a minute to fly out, whereas putting together these big stick kites took forever. And I think I said to him once, if someone hadn't invented these kites, you know, if you hadn't invented them, someone else would have. And it's seriously changed how we fly.
00:02:42
Speaker 1: It has. I mean, we can't help but think of you know, the big spectacles, the men to raise and the meg Bite in particular that you know, crafted festivals around the world, and that sort of transformation of the industry. That innovation coming from mid Canterbury can't really be understated. But I think as well, Peter Whitehead, I brought my young Ellis her first octopus. P l K last year, and you know, we love just going down to Lake Hood flying this thing around and the magic, you know, the wonder that you see in her eyes. I mean that's what it really comes down to, right sending something up in the skies and just enjoying the love of flying.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, absolutely, just just being you know, being able to be Well, we like it because we've made it so we can we can you know, we can see something we've we've made actually working. But you know when when you see kids flying flying kites like that, it's just, yeah, it's great.
00:03:44
Speaker 1: It's great to see the joy and yeah, yeah, inspiring generations of kite makers and engineers and dreamers to look up and to imagine bigger, fly high. Peter Lynn, and thank you for your wonderful contribution and she is for sharing your memories as well. Peter White Hit from the Kite Flies Association at the
Speaker 1: Really sad news over the weekend the loss of a mid Canterbury icon kite maker. Peter Lynn, passed away from terminal cancer aged eighty. Another Peter, Peter Whitehead, is the local president of the New Zealand Kite Flyers Association. Morning to you, good morning. How did you come to know Peter Lynn?
00:00:21
Speaker 2: Oh? It was about forty years ago when the New Zealand Kite Flyers was created. So Peter was well making big kites at the time and lots of the octopus. So there was an event in Wellington which I was not at, but Bob mays Moore was to do with the local Willington kite flyers and they were talking and Peter ended up donating some money so that we could create New Zealand Kite Flyers Association. And as soon as that was created, I met him. So I've known him for a very long time.
00:01:09
Speaker 1: What sort of legacy does he leave? How do you feel that Peter should be remembered?
00:01:15
Speaker 2: Okay, well, when when we were flying kites, you know, forty years ago, most every kite just about had six in it, and Peter was selling the kites even then. I bought myself a six meter box kite of his and I can well remember traveling around the world with it and it weighed about seventeen kilos, you know, a hell of a job. And a few years later, in about nineteen ninety something, we all went to Thailand and that was the first major first time I think that we're all traveled with some inflatable kites and we had an octopus and we could just take that out of the bag, two of us hold it that the air in a way it went, you know, it took a minute to fly out, whereas putting together these big stick kites took forever. And I think I said to him once, if someone hadn't invented these kites, you know, if you hadn't invented them, someone else would have. And it's seriously changed how we fly.
00:02:42
Speaker 1: It has. I mean, we can't help but think of you know, the big spectacles, the men to raise and the meg Bite in particular that you know, crafted festivals around the world, and that sort of transformation of the industry. That innovation coming from mid Canterbury can't really be understated. But I think as well, Peter Whitehead, I brought my young Ellis her first octopus. P l K last year, and you know, we love just going down to Lake Hood flying this thing around and the magic, you know, the wonder that you see in her eyes. I mean that's what it really comes down to, right sending something up in the skies and just enjoying the love of flying.
00:03:22
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, absolutely, just just being you know, being able to be Well, we like it because we've made it so we can we can you know, we can see something we've we've made actually working. But you know when when you see kids flying flying kites like that, it's just, yeah, it's great.
00:03:44
Speaker 1: It's great to see the joy and yeah, yeah, inspiring generations of kite makers and engineers and dreamers to look up and to imagine bigger, fly high. Peter Lynn, and thank you for your wonderful contribution and she is for sharing your memories as well. Peter White Hit from the Kite Flies Association at the
