Jet Engines on Bicycles: The Physics of Bad Ideas
What happens when you strap a jet engine to a bicycle? It turns out the physics is funnier and stranger than the video. We dig into why that bike almost certainly ran a valveless pulsejet rather than a turbojet, why the V-1 "buzz bomb" sound comes free with the engine class, and why standing behind it would get you both shoved and scalded. Along the way: the pulsejet that burns 55 gallons an hour and has no throttle, the go-kart builder who melted an aluminum mount off his own tailpipe, and why the military cancelled a pulsejet helicopter because it was simply too loud. Episode 5545 —…
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