Sweden and XENON

Xenon crossed open sea
For the first time ever an autogyro crossed the open sea to the remote Swedish island of Gotland!
The historic flight took place in a newly delivered Xenon II RT on the fifth of september 2011. The
distance over open sea was about 100 km from Västervik to Visby and took well under one hour at
the height of 4 000 ft in controlled airspace. The trip back was smooth sailing with tailwind and over
160 km/h in GS. The flight was made by Karl Tidlund and Rickard Petrelius.

Historic landing in the city of Stockholm with autogyro
To show the capabillity of the autogyro and create PR Tom Johansson was invited to participate in
“Parkernas dag” in Stockholm. A celebration to the green areas in Stockholm and preservation of these.
The historic start & landing was done at Årsta-fältet, near the famous Globen-area on a grassfield measuring
200 × 200 meters in square, normally used for recreations in different forms. The event took place on
the 27 of aug 2011 in a Xenon II R. The crowd showed great interest in the strange machine and the
crescendo of the day was the historic take-off.
http://arstafaltet.se/profiles/blogs/gyrokopter-gor-historisk-take-off-fran-arstafaltet-pa-parkernas-d