A special pair of Lithiums

This is a L'Atelier Lithium, which used to belong to Roger Backhouse, a former member of our L-katz team, who sadly passed away a number of years ago.

This is a L'Atelier Lithium, which used to belong to Tony Vella, a former member of our L-katz team, who sadly passed away a number of years ago.

Roger and Tony also flew as a pair, under the name 'Wings on Strings'.

And, as a pair, they flew a range of team kites, including these Lithiums.

Over time, and via different routes, both these Lithiums managed to find their way to our kite bag ....

... and yesterday, we had them on our lines for the first time!

Lithiums work well as team kites: good tracking, no oversteer, easy (half-)axels, and relatively slow speed.

But, much more important than their handling and flying characteristics is that, even though Roger and Tony are no longer with us, their Lithiums are now back together again.

And that makes these Lithiums a special pair of kites for us: we will always fly them thinking of Roger and Tony, meaning they're never really gone ...

And should we ever fly these Lithiums at a festival, this is the music we'll fly them to:

Credit of the pictures of us: Piyush Patel