Radical variation of Raaseri.

Xseri was developed from Raaseri like this:

• Raaseri sail was scaled down to 80%.
• The whole leading edge is curved. (Raaseri has straight upper part.)
• The spine was shortened to use the "standard" 0.825 m long spar. The sail can be made of one piece of fabric.
• The trailing edge was adapted to fit the spine lenght.
• No spine tunnel.
• Small winglets were added.
• A second standoff were added between the winglet tip and the lower spreader. There's no need for trailing edge tensioning line.
• A third standoff were added.
• Cross-Shunt-Bridle was replaced by a turbo-bridle.

Standoff attachment points are red.

Frame
	Material	Lenght in meters
Spine	Strong Carbon, 5-6 mm	0.825 m
Upper spreader	Light Carbon, 5-6 mm	0.48 m
Lower spreader	Light Carbon, 5-6 mm	0.61 m
Upper Leading Edge Spar	Light Carbon, 5-6 mm	0.68 m
Lower Leading Edge Spar	Strong Carbon, 5-6 mm	0.68 m
Optional inner standoff 0.23 m from the spine on TE.	Carbon rod 2 mm	0.17 m
Middle standoff 0.44 m from the spine on TE.	Carbon rod 2 mm	0.22 m
Outer (winglet) standoff 0.63 m from the spine on TE.	Carbon rod 2 mm	0.22 m

Turbo bridle dimensions
Upper leg (to the bottom of turbo leg)	0.37 m
Outhaul leg (to the bottom of turbo leg)	0.55 m
Turbo leg	0.13 m
Inhaul leg (to the top of turbo leg)	0.44 m

Comments

Subject: Xseri Photo
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:05:28 -0700
From: Kent Williams 
To: simo@kfs.org

I finished my Xseri a week ago.  I'm very impressed with 
the kite - great design!  I did an appliqué graphic on 
mine and I though you may be interested.  You could even 
use the photo on your web site for the Xseri if you wish.  
The graphic I used is a CorelDraw clip art graphic.  I put
the photo on my ISP's server so it's easy for people to 
get at instead of e-mailing all interested parties. Image 
is about 50k and is in jpeg format.  

Let me know what you think!

http://www.relia.net/~kentnamy/Xseri1.jpg

-Kent : Utah Kite Nerd

The copyright of the Xseri plan is owned by Simo Salanne.

You are granted a permission:

• To make an Xseri for your private, non commercial purpose.
• To have a link to the Xseri plan on your web page. Please send me an email about it.

You are not allowed:

• To use the plan or the design for any commercial purpose.
• To republish the plan or part of it without my permission.
• To run a work shop building Xseris, without my permission.