Jumping from an airplane is much too tame for Bob Maddox. He needs something a little more extreme. That's why he plans to strap himself to a four-engine pulse jet rocket, ride it to around 25,000 ...

Bob Maddox’s stage name, Crazy Rocketman, is a misnomer. Maddox doesn’t build rockets. He builds pulse-jet engines. There’s a difference. As for the crazy part—that may be true. Maddox is the world’s ...

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 ...

Santa’s overdue to trade in his old ride for a new Christmas cruiser. How about a jet-powered sleigh? There’s one out there. The sleigh follows on from Maddox’s earlier go-kart, known as The Beast. It ...

Move aside Grandpa Munster, there’s a new coffin car in town – and it’s powered by a jet engine. Oregon inventor Robert Maddox gave the Dragula coffin car - made famous in the 1960s children’s TV show ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. -- Experimentation is an important aspect of creating revolutionary advances in Army Aviation, but sometimes the only good result is to gain the knowledge that an idea doesn't work.

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 ...

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 ...