Nova Xenon
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Nova Xenon – Building a wing for the X-Alps

27 March, 2021

The Xenon is Nova’s 2021 Red Bull X-Alps paraglider, and the company’s first ever two-liner.

Follow the design team, Fabian Gasteiger, Toni Bender and X-Alps athlete Théo de Blic, as they pull out all the stops to perfect the wing and get it certified before the March deadline.

Filmed in Tenerife by Vera Polascheg.

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