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 ...

Key to the V1 was the pulse engine that propelled it. Put simply, this was a jet engine that consisted of a round box with an exhaust pipe at one end and spring-mounted slats on the front face.

Pulse jets are best known as the incredibly noisy engines that powered the German V1 ‘buzz bombs’ that were fired at London toward the end of the Second World War. Aside from the tires ...

A woman who survived a notorious flying bomb attack during World War Two has celebrated her 103rd birthday. Forty-two people ...

Each V1 carried a high-explosive warhead weighing up to 1,700 lbs. (850 kg) for a range of up to 150 miles (240 km). It was driven by a pioneering pulse-jet engine at speeds of more than 400 mph ...

An RDE is a rocket engine that is similar to the pulse jet engines that powered the infamous German V1 cruise missile of the Second World War, which used a simple combustion chamber with an ...

but about halfway through the service we all became suddenly aware of a V1 that was rapidly approaching. The deep and all too familiar throbbing sound of its pulse jet engine was unmistakable.

He recently bolted a dual-exhaust pulse jet engine to the side of an ordinary bicycle, donned a leather jacket and helmet and then held on tight as he peeled off a 73-mph run […] Save this story ...