With a 225hp Continental aircraft engine, 21-foot wingspan and an airplane-shaped body, the Flarecraft can travel 350 miles in three and a half hours on 47 gallons of fuel.

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The engine has 208 horses and 258 foot-pounds of torque to move the estimated 3, 264 pounds of curb weight.

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And opposite a particularly Heath Robinson piece of machinery, complete with foot-long levers and dials like the engine room of the Titanic, I spot an old circuit diagram on the wall, mapping out each of Britain's national newspapers.

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It has 621 bhp and 590 foot-pounds of torque from a 6-liter, direct-injection engine.

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Unfazed, Falwell guns his engine harder, bouncing his way to the top of the 1, 200-foot peak.

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But the engine is unable to travel by rail line itself as it can only run on a two foot wide narrow gauge.

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The explosion comes two months after the 900-foot-long Triumph was towed to Mobile after becoming disabled on the Gulf during a cruise by an engine room fire, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages for several days.

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The explosion comes two months after the 900-foot-long Carnival Triumph was towed to Mobile after becoming disabled on the Gulf during a cruise by an engine room fire, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages for several days.

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