Peter Lynn

These large-scale sparless kites include the manta ray, octopus, puffer-fish, gecko and trilobite.

In 1987 he began developing power kites for traction uses,and designing boats, buggies, boards and snow sleds to use with them.

The sport of kite buggying in its modern form began from a kitesailing craft Lynn developed.

It is referred to as hybrid as the form is a single skin kite supported by a combination of both aerodynamic forces and a flexible frame.

Using KiteSleds, in May 2006 Australians Patrick Spiers and Ben Deacon completed a 700 km trans-Greenland journey that they believe was 20% faster than would have been possible by kite skiing.

From 1991, Dr Clucas continued this development through to commercialisation with WhisperGen, a business formed for this purpose by elements of the NZ electricity industry.

Robert Fredrick Lynn was awarded the Queen's Service Order in the New Years Honours list 2007.