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Build Your Own Jet Engine
jgarland79 writes "Have you ever wanted your very own jet engine? Build one at home in your own garage. The guys over at www.garagejet.com have done just that. Their jet engine is made from an automotive turbo, spark plugs, and some scrap metal. I have made a mirror site here." We've had a couple of previous stories about a guy building pulsejet engines - the type of engine described above is a turbojet.
'Nuff said! ;)
Now I'm going to have to start worrying about real rice rockets on the way home from work.
attempt to win the x prize. w00t
Combined with the Slashdot articles on Build Your Own Cruise Missle, I'm good to go!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Two slashdottings for the price of one!
The FBI were right to go after you.
I had a friend who knew this guy one time and his sister's cousin built a jet engine just like the one in the article and bolted it to the top of this old Nova that he had. He took it for a test run in the desert in, like, Arizona. He forgot that his normal brakes wouldn't be enough to stop it, and the accident investigators found the remains of the jet engine 80 feet up the side of a mesa.
Dude, his teeth were still embedded in the melted steering wheel. That's how they identified him. Don't mess with home-brewed jet propulsion, it's a recipe for trouble. You could put someone's eye out.
The Dalai LLama
...true story, I swear...
My sig could be your sig!
All that in one project? What's he building, an SCV?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
When building an engine that will potentially operate at over 1000 degrees Celsius, be sure to build frame out of wood.
I'm with you. I don't want to have to put real crap on a machine unless absolutely necessary, e.g. bomb threat, man with gun, summons from SCO...
Stay tuned for new sig...
Will little frozen chicken McNuggets work? That turbo is rather small to swallow a big bird.
Life is not for the lazy.
Let's see, super chargers are ungodly expensive....
Adding turbo or even replacing turbo, out of this world....
But! Two 300 dollar jet engines welded to the side of your Ford Escort!?!?!?!? Francine Dee! Here I come!
"We've had a couple of previous stories about a guy building pulsejet engines - the type of engine described above is a turbojet
We just invented a new one...serverjet! That is where fire shoots out of the drive bays of a server so fast that the whole thing flies across the room!!
Sometimes I just think yall pick random servers to destroy. Kinda like that guy from the Jerk who flips through the newspaper and then just pops his finger down on a person and then he kills them. Likewise, you probably put in a topic to Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky!" Whoever the unlucky site is gets the slashdotting!
I can feel you laughing from here.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Once you'd built one of these, build another. Then tie a lawn chair in between, and start 'em up! Should be a real blast.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In the Bibical sense?
and his sister's cousin
Wouldn't it just be easier to say, "his cousin"?
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
It probably started out as an attempt to improve a blow-dryer for a chronically late person.
Table-ized A.I.
Pulsejets, turbojets... what's the big deal? They invented Laserjets years ago. Can get one of those for $400 or less, and the laser just runs on electricity, doesn't need fuel...
Next these guys will duct tape 10,000 model rocket engines to a tin can and send it into orbit as a homemade sputnick! oh wait John carmack has got this one covered!!! http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Ho me