Maddox was transfixed by this flying bomb, which was powered by a pulse-jet engine. No one had been building these highly ...

In this video, we're getting hands-on in the garage to start a pulse jet engine. Watch the behind-the-scenes fun, challenges, and the tech wizardry that goes into creating these machines!

He’s flown quite a few modified R/C planes and has an electronic Engine Control Unit for his jets. One of his most impressive projects is the 100 pound thrust pulse jet that was later attached ...

Start with a well-proven design, like Cottrill's focused wave pulse jet engine. This is a valveless pulse jet designed so that the combustion chamber consists of nothing but a long cone flowing ...

He discovered turbine jet engines are expensive. But pulse jets are as cheap as they are simple, so Maddox set to work building one. "All I started with was a schematic out of an encyclopedia," he ...

Maddox, 48, who has been tinkering with pulse jet engines for 10 years now ... How did Maddox move from cabinet building to a rocket-bike endeavor now being tracked by Wired.com, among other ...

Answer by Tom Farrier, retired USAF command pilot; expert in aviation safety, on Quora: A pulse jet is as inefficient as the dickens in comparison with internal combustion or turbine engines ...

Oregon inventor Robert Maddox gave the Dragula coffin car - made famous in the 1960s children’s TV show The Munsters - a 21st century facelift by adding two pulse jets. The engine in the ...

Building custom-made rocket-powered toys ... Maddox estimates that the single pulse jet engine with two tailpipes puts out 250 pounds of thrust. Pulse jets are the not-so secret ingredient to ...

In an effort to create a simpler, more affordable form of jet ... first engine back in March, the company announced this week that it's delivered the first customer engines. This loud, pulse ...

[Finlay] took some inspiration cues and parts from another jet engine he had on hand that was powering his toaster. This is a pulse jet design, which is welded together from laser-cut pieces of ...