Brian Kynaston Waugh (1922–1984) was a notable New Zealand aircraft engineer, military and commercial aviator, airline operator, meteorologist.

Night raids to Germany included Bremen, the Leuna Oil Refinery at Merseburg, the Howaldt Works, and the inner dockyard at Kiel where the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was capsized.

Continuing Lancaster flying, he dropped food to the starving Dutch at The Hague in Operation Manna, ferried Belgian refugees home, repatriated Allied Prisoners of War, and flew long scenic (Baedeker) flights over Germany, Belgium and Denmark.

At the end of hostilities, Waugh continued in RAF service with transport squadrons in England, Europe, and in South East Asia, based in Singapore.

On 15 April 1967, he was seriously injured in the forced landing of DH89 ZK-AKT in Queenstown’s Shotover River, due to engine failure.