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I ran across this video on youtube this morning. It documents the first flight of Tom Phillippi's Xenos very well.

Thanks for posting that Chris! Great inspiration as I head down to the workshop today.


Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
Aerovee/taildragger
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Wow. Some nervous mistakes there..starting the engine with the canopy open and the go-around with spoilers extended.

I'm not knocking him, I've been there and I'm by no means immune...:)

Thanks for posting the video. Speaking as someone who has yet to fly a taildragger, I'm a little surprised by the bouncing that he had on all the landings ( last one was better). If someone would be willing to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a primary goal to keep the stick back for the landing and rollout? It seems that, had he kept the stick back, that bouncing may have been eliminated.

Very nice airplane and always exciting to see another plane fly!! :D

Mike, he was simply too fast. Had he pulled the stick back he would have zoomed to 50 feet. Granted, he has quite a floater there but in my Waiex I just set three point attitude at about 1-2 feet off the ground and wait. She'll settle right in... ;)

MichaelFarley56 wrote:Thanks for posting the video. Speaking as someone who has yet to fly a taildragger, I'm a little surprised by the bouncing that he had on all the landings ( last one was better). If someone would be willing to correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a primary goal to keep the stick back for the landing and rollout? It seems that, had he kept the stick back, that bouncing may have been eliminated.

Very nice airplane and always exciting to see another plane fly!! :D

Kip, is exactly correct.
Xenos Ted