-- You mentioned recently that Mistral Engines may have difficulty in penetrating
the existing engine market because their engine has a similar price as existing
engines and a similar fuel consumption. What seems to be missing is the potential
to use jet fuel as a cheaper alternative. I have not found any references to this
alternative but Mid-West Engines here in England demonstrated their twin rotor running
on Jet A1. The only difficulty was cold starting this was overcome by starting
using normal gasolene then once it was running switched over to Jet A1. This only
worked with the fuel injected engine . Power was down by about 5%.

Peter Whitehead

Someone did yes. The rotary will run on jet fuel but it is not always
available everywhere and is not always lower cost than car gasoline.
I can't speak for Mistral. I think they may be focused
on auto fuel as it is available everywhere. They will be giving
a presentation in Friedrichshafen at Aero next Thursday.
I will forward this question to them in the mean time.

Paul Lamar