Full Throttle Test: Did we Push a Pulse Jet Engine to its Limits?!

something aspiring scientists should note here. "I was wrong" is a valid outcome and not something to be ashamed of.

"I didn't believe them..." The line that starts all great science stories. ❤

Waiting for rotating detonation engine

"Loud, and so far, no police" sounds like me on a night out. Great video guys

When I was 16, in the 1950s, I tried to make a pulse-jet from a 3 inch steel naval gun shell casing that my dad brought home. I went through several drill bits opening up the base as that casing had been hardened from its one time use. Not having worked out the flutter valve yet, I wanted to test the fuel injection, which for me was a Colman stove generator unit. It scared me when it shot a flame 16 feet long across the garage floor and I instantly closed the valve. Apparently I had built a flame thrower instead. Tipping the shell casing up outside the garage I looked down the barrel and seeing some remaining liquid at the bottom decided to get rid of the evidence. I dropped a match down it and the resulting puff of flame singed my eyebrows off. I was lucky that that was the worst of that experiment in jet power.

By the way, one of the engineers helping build the pulse-jet for the V1-german-rocket in WW2, lived after the war in Eastern Germany, and invented the 2stroke-engine-resonance-chamber, based on the function-principle of the pulse-jet... Was later taken by the Japanese (Suzuki), to help them with his know-how win 2stroke-bike-races for Suzuki... The resonance-chamber is what first turned the 2stroke into a performance-beast as it replaces the charger (which 2strokes anyway didn´t have, or any other engines, for that matter), and it´s a piece of tuburarly-shaped-metal-sheet, very cost-efficient, when compared to expensive turbo-chargers...

Living in a railroad town in the 50-60s railroad brakemen had a portable pulse jet for heating up frozen running gear on train cars. Our town also had a pickup truck mounted pulse jet that expelled DDT for mosquito control..

Anyone else thinking of Colin furze pulse jet bike right now ? But with our beloved "main presenter" giving a great ignited expand./ retracte restart blow by blow description of the entire pulse jet engine process ..

"let's go outside and annoy the neighbors!" I love it...

When I was a youngster, sixty years ago, I really wanted to build a V1 on a test stand. Thanks, I love this!!! Perhaps a good starting point to go forward safely is to anchor a table with short legs.

For a pulse jet, there's an optimum length and shape for the tube, and the cylinder isn't it. It's simply the cheapest. Yours was by far the best explanation of pulse-jet operation I've heard yet!

"Hello, 911? Yeah, it's me again. He's blowing something else up. "

There's a old guy named Robert Maddox who put a pulse jet engine on a go kart and goes to the salt flats early in the mornings to drive it around. He put them on skateboards, sleds, all kinds of things. Living his best life you could say. He has a Youtube channel, highly entertaining, definitely recommend it. PS I love the look of satisfaction on your face when that thing starts up flawlessly.

bolt your test platform down in the back of your pickup, that way you might even be able to show a "practical" implementation using the thrust to power a vehicle.

"Ask Questions, Question the Answers!!!"...an excellent indicator of all true scientific inquiry!!!

One of the most satisfying moments is the genuine mad scientist laugh... 😊..... of course the son's very genuine 'nope , nope , I don't like it ' response is very reasonable and also satisfying 👌

You guys are awesome, bringing High Technology to the realm of the back yard mechanic. I'm from New York, if you guys ever did a Tech Ingredients Festival I would be there.

Gentlemen, I hope you appreciate the opportunity presented to you to be able to work with your Dad, the presenter.You will look back on these times as some of your most precious memories. Your father is a genius with a curious mind in many different fields and also a great teacher. Without even knowing him I love him. He reminds me so much of my own father who not only was a genius and excelled in his chosen field of chemistry, he was also a teacher and an athletic coach during his life. He touched many lives. You all are living special lives, cherish every minute together if you can.

I fully appreciate you STOPPING what you are doing as opposed to getting into the "get it done" mindset. Very nice showcase of proper procedure.

Everyday is a good day when Tech Ingredients has a video out.