Sponsored Post: Radioshack Race Car Pulse Jet Engine DIY Project
In theory, remote controlled cars are great, but in practice they're just never quite exciting enough for me. That is, until I decided to attach a jet engine to one. Yes, you read that right - a jet engine. Pulse jets are a simple type of jet engine with no, or very few, moving parts, depending on the design. The jet I used had only one - a reed valve made of spring steel shaped like the petals of a flower. Rather than relying on complex internal machinery, pulse jets instead work with the resonance of the exhaust gasses in the tailpipe. This simplicity means that you can get ones small, light, and cheap enough to put on a model plane - or an RC car. To attach a jet to the chassis of my Radio Shack RC car, I fabricated simple brackets out of steel....