Xyla Foxlin

Xyla Foxlin Mechatronics engineer, pilot & Cessna 140 owner, woodworker, and creator of chaos. I make things on YouTube.
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Proud to be a 👩🏻‍🔧👸🏻 biz inq: [email protected] Xyla Foxlin is an award-winning mechatronics engineer turned YouTube creator who uses her knack for visual storytelling to share the creativity and joy of engineering with the world. She specializes in long-form content and her YouTube channel has amassed over 22 million views, 3 million watch hours, and 400k subscribers in just three

years. It features a blend of technical skill, craftsmanship, and art- everything from proving impossible physics demonstrations to constructing a livable camper in just a few weeks, to high power rocketry and organic chemistry. Xyla is an avid supporter of women in STEM initiatives, including working with AAAS as an IF/THEN ambassador, where a full size statue of Xyla was exhibited in the Smithsonian Museum during women's history month. Prior to YouTube, she was the founder and executive director of the Beauty and the Bolt 501c3 nonprofit organization, whose program has taught over 13,000 kids to use their first powertool and reached over 100,000 students in classrooms. When she left the organization, Reinvented Magazine took over all of Beauty and the Bolt’s programming. Her college invention turned tech startup, Parihug, was 178% funded on Kickstarter. As a teenage founder and CEO she raised over $200k in preseed VC funding, and has been featured in the New York Times, The Verge, Mashable, Google Made with Code, and more. Xyla has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in General Engineering with a concentration in Mechatronics and Creative Technology with a minor in Studio Art from Case Western Reserve University. She is a AAAS IF/THEN ambassador, and has been named Cleveland’s Most Interesting People 2017, Crain’s Notable Women in Technology and 20 in their 20s, and was the featured engineer in Microsoft’s international Surface Laptop ad campaign. She was crowned Miss Greater Cleveland 2018 in the Miss America program. She lives in Los Angeles where she is the proud owner and pilot of a 1946 Cessna 140 that she flies in her free time. She also loves backpacking or camping in her homebuilt teardrop, climbing large mountains, and salsa dancing.

02/07/2025

Making steady progress on the Pietenpol project! Shaping the tail so that the side walls can be bent in and glued where they meet right on that centerline.

The amount of brains in this photo is pretty genuinely unbelievable considering how little we engaged them this weekend ...
01/07/2025

The amount of brains in this photo is pretty genuinely unbelievable considering how little we engaged them this weekend ✨

Eternally grateful for the best girlfriends in the world to help me ring in my last birthday of my 20s 😭 and to for being the master at dragging ideas out of the group chat into Vegas. The BEST thing about getting old is finding (and growing into) your gang of confident, secure women who cheer each other on for everything no matter what. Dorky 13 year old me could never have dreamed of finding friends like these 💕

30/06/2025

Making the fixture for the fuselage!

28/06/2025

The reward for fitting and glueing all the struts? Gussets for daayyyyzzzzz. The gussets are where all the real strength of these joints comes from though so no slackin’ 🫡

🚨 NEW VIDEO ALERTTT ‼️🚨🚨 full length building the fuselage video is now live on YouTube! Link in bio ✈️
28/06/2025

🚨 NEW VIDEO ALERTTT ‼️🚨🚨 full length building the fuselage video is now live on YouTube! Link in bio ✈️

26/06/2025

Don’t mind me over here screaming because it’s suddenly looking a little bit airplane shaped 🤭

24/06/2025

Who’s excited 👀 IM EXCITED

I get these weird waves of missing her. Building the Pietenpol and going for the occasional ride has been an amazing way...
24/06/2025

I get these weird waves of missing her. Building the Pietenpol and going for the occasional ride has been an amazing way of still feeling connected to aviation but 72114 is my bird who taught me what adventure and joy really is. It’s hard to describe how much I just want to be alone with her again. Maybe someday 💕

I’ve gotten a lot of questions over the Pietenpol build of whether or not this means I got my medical back (and a lot of misguided assumptions that I’m building it because it counts as light sport so you don’t need a medical- however if you’ve ever had a medical denied you can’t fly LSA. If you’re at risk never go try to get a medical in the first place, just stick to LSA) and the answer is very much still no. My appeal has been filed with the federal air surgeon and now I’m playing the FAA waiting game. I’ve heard stories of this taking years. I’m hoping so much to have my medical back by the time I finish, but if I don’t I’ll need to find an alternative test pilot.

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