Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

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Ohboy, the PopSci award...

The 2008 article has a video of Harry describing his engine. As it turns out, he is showing the non-working mock-up of the Mark 6 truck engine. It's just a shiny plastic simulation of what Harry thinks a real engine would look like.

But, Harry Schoell being Harry Schoell, he doesn't give the slightest hint that it's not a real engine and that a real engine had not even been built by that point. He just goes on about how great the performance is.

It wasn't until the end of 2009 that Cyclone put out a PR Cyclone Power Technologies Runs Flagship Mark V Engine on Steam. And this "milestone" wasn't even for a complete engine, just a bit of one.

And then at the 2011 Shareholder Open House (scroll ahead to 14:30) they predicted the first running Mark 5 engine would be delivered to Raytheon in Q1 2012. (Raytheon never got a Mark 5.)

Now in the latest 10Q they say "With additional resources, our R&D team will also move towards completion of the Mark 5 project this year".

So Popular Science never saw an engine run before handing out the 2008 award. They mistook Harry's imaginings and hopes for fact.