This video shows what must have been a very exciting flight, even though it was only seconds long. There is a LOT of camber on the airplane's wing, generating a lot of downwash at the horizontal tail. The pilot seems to need nearly full nose-down elevator to get the tail into the air. As soon as he goes to neutral elevator, the plane jumps off the ground. In fact, by the time he is 5 feet up he already has what looks like full nose-down controls back in to get the plane to level off. The longitudinal axis took so much concentration that the lateral almost gets away as he touches a wingtip on landing. I think I would have kept is short as well.
http://eaaforums.org/showthread.php?353-Photo-Sequence-First-flight-of-EAA%92s-1909-Bleriot-XI-replica
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