Originally Posted by
JP-1
Quote from Xicoy's "About us" website
The X45 ran first time in August 2018. During these tests the engine show high potential, exceding the initial design goal. Plans were quickly made to transform the personal project in to a mass produced product.
In the next month work and progressed, a substantial investment was done to manufacture the molds for mass production of castings for the turbine wheel and stator.
A chance opportunity arose where a colleague of many years was looking for a new challenge and was able to join Gaspar to share the workload and assist this development and others to follow. The colleague is Mike Murphy, formally of Wren Turbines. This fertile collaboration has brought two lots of jet engine experience together to pool skills and create some new ideas and projects to bring to the market.
........and the result is brilliant. Mine ran, installed in a Savex L 39, for the first time yesterday, it will fly tomorrow.
No ( model ) jet engine has impressed me more !
Gaspar and Mike working together, should, will, result in some great engines.
Wren SS to kero, dead easy, did it myself.