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Old 05-30-2005 | 05:41 PM
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Default Flew the MERLIN powered Kingcat today!

Put a couple of flights on the engine today. I'm running out of good things to say about this engine thus far. Fired right up once I got the air out of the fuel line. Took off a 40 lb airplane at one third throttle. About 2 minutes into the flight I had unlimited accelerated vertical from almost a stand still. I'm getting a solid 12 minute flight going full throttle about 5 full minutes of the 12.

The acceleration can be seen and heard. There are about 14 to 16 turbine pilots in the austin area, 6 of them were at the field today and all came over and were impressed with the engine.

Second flight was better than the first and expect the next flights to get even better.

Dreamworksrc and Gaspar have the real deal here, I'm looking forward to putting another 20 flights on the airplane up in Dallas next weekend.

Sean