Jumping from an airplane is much too tame for Bob Maddox. He needs something a little more extreme. That’s why he plans to strap himself to a four-engine pulse jet rocket, ride it to around ...

Rockets carry their own oxygen so they can function in space; pulse jets breathe air. And, unlike liquid-fueled rockets, the Beast’s engines have no moving parts.

An understanding of the principles of operation of gas turbine engines, pulse-jets, RAM-jet engines and also solid and liquid fuelled rocket engines as applied to aerospace propulsion. Teaching ...

In fact, valveless pulse jets used by Maddox feature no moving parts at all. Instead, they rely solely on the acoustic resonance designed into the engine’s intake, combustion chamber, and exhaust.

Some jet derivatives, such as ramjets and pulse jets, ... In 2020 Dr Ahmed and his colleagues made an experimental rocket version for launching space missions.

Bob Maddox once built the world’s largest pulse-jet engine and mounted it in a 1965 Jaguar. ... and any time Wile E. was doing anything with rockets or jets, I was glued to the TV.” ...