Bob Maddox’s stage name, Crazy Rocketman, is a misnomer. Maddox doesn’t build rockets. He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a ...

Imagine our surprise when we learned [Bruce Simpson], who made headlines in 2003 with his $5000 DIY cruise missile, is still alive, not illegally interned in a black ops prison, and still doing what ...

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When Medford cabinetmaker Bob Maddox's business hit the skids with the economy, he turned to his Plan B: making jet-powered bicycles. No joking. Maddox, 48, who has been tinkering with pulse jet ...

The pulse jet engine (pictured here, with air intake unit at right) was found at a hospital in Mosul, Iraq in September 2017 The Islamic State (IS) group attempted to develop high-speed drones powered ...