I know Vin is an air-start man at heart. It was his slick operation of the JPX years ago that got me out of D/F and into turbines, so he is forgiven.

But Gerhart, air-starting engines rock. I have owned JetCats since they appeared in U.S. I still own P-80 Serial #6 here in the U.S., and was running flak for JetCat when everyone else was fiddling with air and deifying brand X, so no need to remind me about the brain-dead operation of the autostarts, BUT.........there is nothing sweeter than spooling up my Merc with air......poof, slam it up to sustain, and then pedal to the metal at 147,000 screaming R's.

I guess it started thousands of years ago in my childhood, when my dad took me out the General Billy Mitchell field in Milwaukee to watch the Air Reserve guys airstarting the F-86's and F-89's. That gave me a jet fix for at least until the next time I got to see them.

Who knows if the Mamba's are all going to be as nice as the one at FJ 2002, but I personally think it is going be one slick 12lb thruster if they are.

Tom