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Summary
"The team formed in 1988 and were named The Deptford Decorators on account of the painters overalls that they adopted as a uniform in rokakku battles. Deptford, an area in London near the Blackheath flying site used for team "practice" was dropped from the team name very early on. The team are sometimes affectionately known as The Decs.
In
1989 the team started to fly two line kites and when Revolution introduced
their four line kite this quickly became the focus of attention. From
1989 the team formed a close association with Jørgen
Møeller Hansen, the Danish Kite Designer
and Graphic Artist. 
Jørgen
has collaborated with the team and designed the distinctive graphics
which feature on most of the kites that the team fly; Revolution, Rokakku
and Parafoil included.
It was in 1990 that the team started to travel extensively, mostly in Europe but also to more distant places including Malaysia, South Africa, Israel as well as Canada and the USA. The team currently consists of eight fliers. This allows some flexibility in travel arrangements as the preferred format for team presentations requires six participants.
Felix Mottram, Jacob Twyford, Johnny Claffey, Mark Eustace & Vaughan Livingstone are in the team currently. David Ellison will be flying with us in the latter part of 2008 and Romney Johnstone and Damon Meheux are set to re-join the team. Andy Preston left the team, with immediate effect, 1st September 2008 and Tom Greenfield will not flying with us any more on a regular basis. Nic Boothby resigned 03/09/2008.
Team presentations with the Revolution Kites are both formal and informal. Formal arena presentations usually involve some musical accompaniment and a degree of choreography determined by the caller of the moment. Informal presentations are essential to the team. This is when they fly together during a festival, often inventing new manoeuvres as they go. New ideas are often incorporated into formal presentations on the same day so the audience can really get an understanding of the creative process at work.
Revolution Kites and kite festival organisers have enabled the team to develop its project over the last 19 years.
(Technical note: The team now fly on 120ft/36.5m 90lb/40kg Laser Pro Gold line and use the extended Revolution handles. The custom sails designed by Jørgen Møeller Hansen are sewn by Martin Lester and finished by Revolution Kites.)"