Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

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POMPANO BEACH, FL, Feb 18, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Cyclone Power
Technologies Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYPW) has named Thomas McAvity and Rick Simmons
to the Board of Directors o f its waste heat engine division. These two
individuals bring over 60 combined years of finance and business management
experience to the newly formed WHE/Generation.

Thomas McAvity is Managing Director of NewOak Capital LLC, an investment
management and risk advisory firm. Between 2000 and 2007 he served as Executive
Vice President and Chief Investment Officer and Strategist for Scottish Re Group
Limited, where he built investment and asset-liability management processes and
infrastructure supporting a growth in assets from $800 million to $14 billion.
From 1983 to 2000 he served as Vice President of Allstate Life Insurance
Company, Lincoln Financial Group, and Alex Brown & Sons. Before that he worked
for BF Saul Co. and BF Saul REIT, becoming Senior VP and CFO in 1977. Mr.
McAvity served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force; and he received his MBA with
High Distinction from Harvard Business School, and BA magna cum laude from Yale
University.

Rick Simmons brings to WHE/Generation over 30 years of experience in building
companies and managing business growth, including most recently founding Av-Mar
Inc., a marine services enterprise that he grew to a multi-million dollar
business in under five years. Mr. Simmons has substantial experience in
manufacturing and commercial project installations; and also co-developed,
patented and licensed to 3M a unique structural acoustic material. Previously,
he founded and built two successful mortgage companies. Mr. Simmons was one of
the first investor shareholders in Cyclone.

"Both Tom and Rick bring great strength to our WHE division," stated Frankie
Fruge, COO and Director of Cyclone. "Tom has applied his substantial experience
in finance and the capital markets to building and analyzing financial models
for our business and customers, and is helping greatly with our corporate
strategy and planning. Rick's hands-on e xperience with our engine systems,
installations and project management has already proved invaluable, and will
undoubtedly help our company prosper."

Operating under the name WHE/Generation, the new Cyclone division will market
and manufacture WHE systems for applications such as small-scale cogeneration,
solar thermal electricity production, biomass combustion, and engines for
auxiliary power units for trucks and RVs.

CORPORATE PROFILE

Cyclone Power Technologies is the developer of the award-winning Cyclone Engine
-- an eco-friendly external combustion engine with the power and versatility to
run everything from portable electric generators and garden equipment to cars,
trucks and locomotives. Invented by company founder and CEO Harry Schoell, the
patented Cyclone Engine is a modern day steam engine, ingeniously designed to
achieve high thermal efficiencies through a compact heat-regenerative process,
and to run on virt ually any fuel -- including bio-diesels, syngas or solar --
while emitting fewer greenhouse gases and irritating pollutants into the air.
Currently in its late stages of development, the Cyclone Engine was recognized
by Popular Science Magazine as the Invention of the Year for 2008, and was
presented with the Society of Automotive Engineers' AEI Tech Award in 2006 and
2008. Additionally, Cyclone was recently named Environmental Business of the
Year by the Broward County Environmental Protection Department. For more
information, visit www.cyclonepower.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information
within the meaning of Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and are subject to the safe harbor
created by those rules. All statements, other than statements of fact, included
in this release, including, without limita tion, statements regarding potential
future plans and objectives of the company, are forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements
will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. The company cautions that
these forward-looking statements are further qualified by other factors. The
company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any statements in
this release, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.





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Will Wellons

407-462-2718

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Company Contact:

Frankie Fruge

Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc.

601 NE 26th Ct.

Pompano Beach, FL 33064

954-943-8721





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