Back in the '80s I worked at a company that made model pulse jets, Curtis Dyna Products. They called them Dyna Jets. They were indeed *loud*. Hearing protection was a must. A university bought some of them from us to use as experimental sound sources in their experiments to sonically sterlize soil. I never heard how those experiments worked out.
I still have two old dyna jets that were my grandpa’s. He used them on competition speed ships. Basically control line “planes”. I know one is complete but one is missing a few things.
Remember going to Wings and Wheel every year back in the late 80's and seeing these strapped to a delta wing plane.. I think it was something like "ghost squadron" team that flew them... certainly were show stoppers, with everyone, including those in the beer tents stopping to watch them fly.. sadly complains from the old folks home some 2 mile away meant that they got banned from flying them as subsequent wings and wheels shows...
I remember those very well. My dad did the whole RC aviation thing when I was a kid and I remember guys showing up at the RC airport with Dynajet powered planes and how astoundingly loud they were and how they would echo off of the tree line a mile away
We started one of these in an enclosed aircraft hanger and it sounded like 50 shotguns going off at once. Our boss came running in screaming his head off...but we couldn't hear him. 😂🇦🇺
HA! We had one of these in auto shop in high school. Finally convinced the teacher to run it one day. Made so much noise, the principal came down to see what was going on. The auto shop was about the furthest classroom from his office.
We have lit a full scale of the eng that was used on the old buzz bomb used in the war back in the day, it will make your insides move in ways they never have and multiple layers of hearing protection is needed
When I was a kid about 12, I had one of these; a Dynajet; thinking back I can see how marvelous it was. Once it got loose putting a big dent in my dad's nice wooden runabout boat. The scene in the TV series "Young Sheldon" where the rocket flies crazily through the house always makes me smile a bit.
It's way more fuel efficient than I expected. Given the amount of fuel you added to the tank, I was thinking it was too little. It barely moved as far as I could see.
Thats pretty cool. You took it out of town at least! I hear that video sound doesn't do it justice. Never heard one in real time but been told they are CRAZY loud
I remember these from almost 70 years ago mountrf on model jet type planes-hand tossed-and flown at van Cortlandt Park in the upper n.w. Bronx. N.Y. -with all manner of free flight gas and iesel engine models plus the first tube 1 channel r.c. rudder only models-with the escapement wound up for use by long rubber bands. God Bless my brother who was interested in -and introduced me as a very young boy to such things! 50's America was an almost incomprenensibly better place in almost every way!
Excellent man. Love this. I am curious to know how much decibel level this device created near the engine. Of course curious to know the fuel-power and efficiency if you had measured them.
We made pulse jets at a company i used to work at in the '80s (Curtis Dyna Products) If you ran them too long and kept them stationary with no fan blowing over them, the stainless steel tubing would burn right through.
@@jbuchana I have a question for you. I know that pulse jets are very fuel inefficient but does that change with size or does it have more to do with simply how much fuel and air are run through the combustion chamber?
A V1 wasn't remotely controlled, it was autonomous. There are RC pulse jet powered planes around, though not many as there are too many noise complaints. ( Karen's everywhere )
I run mine on LPG. its a bit bigger and made from stainless steel, but has no reed valves to worry about. the supports are unable to stop the thrust from moving it, so I need to sit a few bricks on it, but yours is amazing, esp the cherry red heat.
2kg as per the seller... but this is a consumable toy, you can only fire it so many times, it's too expensive if you can only play with it so little and so little time each time, valves only last 1 minute... aluminium body will melt eventually...
I was in a model airplane club {control-line and free-flight} back in the 1970s. I remember seeing these things for sale in hobby shops -- specifically a brand called *_"Dyna-Jet"_* -- but as a teen I had nowhere near the money to buy one. I never saw one flown, but some of the members of the club had seen them and told me about it. When I remember the most is them telling me these pulse jets were *LOUD.*
Cool as heck, think a good addition would be a venturi at the tailpipe connected to a sheath to get some airflow over that chamber. For static use, anyway.
Just got one of these from Stirling Kits. Haven’t tried it yet, working on some kind of stand. I like what you came up with and may copy it with your permission 🙂. I had to laugh when I saw the digital “thrust” scale, exactly the same one I have, purchased for the same purpose. Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ 🤔
Made a valveless PJ out of titanium a few years back. It's about 38" long with a 6" combustion chamber. I use propane to fuel it. Much easier to start and with valveless PJs you throttle them way back. Anyway, I start it with a Campbell Hausfeld 20 gallon direct drive air compressor. You know, the REALLY loud obnoxious ones. At full throttle, the PJ is so loud it completely swamps out the air compressor, to the point where you can't even tell it's running. I can feel my chest cavity resonate with the jet. Yeah... They're loud.
15y ago i build few super small ones , smallest one used 7.62 shell second one was 12g co2 bottle from asg (both needed sustained rly small amount of airflow to work- i used for that air pump from blood pressure monitor) ---- they were so loud that neighbours were annoyed when i turned them on
I built several pulse jets 1980s - loudest thing ever - vibrate stuff of shelves in whole house - crazy heat - highest thrust 10 lbs - fire ball is size of 30 gallon trash can in dark - its impressive - way to loud -
You might want to add a cross brace on your uprights. At that height your current stand might make the bearings less efficient and the readings could be well off.
I notice that the root of the slot between reed blades has a square end. This gives 2 stress riser points which could cause reed failure at the thinnest point of the blade. Try leaving a radius at the bottom of the slot. This should prolong reed life.
Great spot to run a pulse jet . What are we thinking, mate, a dragster or maybe a speed boat to go over to the island in this video, so where is this just a great backdrop.
This one runs on gas, but these things can run on anything as long as it's flammable, including solid fuel. It is perfectly doable to have a pulse jet that runs on coal dust, or even wheat flour.
Could you try running it on HydroDiesel. I think that would work and have been wanting to see someone with a pulse jet try that fuel. It may run considerably cooler with about the same amount of thrust.
Fuel to noise converter.
😂😂😂😂😂❤
Colin furze built a massive pulsejet and aimed it at France
FTNC
Fuck the noise complaint.
The losses are in the form of thrust
Fuel to heat and noise converter with residual thrust as a by-product...
The ideal engine for the backyard. All neighbours will love you !! 😂😅
I've tried it once or twice. Great effect !
My first thought.
J: "immagine what a full size pulse jet engine can do"
Colin furze: "hold my safety tie"
I think Colin has already made one of these.
Edit: yes he has made a full size one
@@unclejim007 or two or three or i honestly lost count
@@unclejim007and drove it himself
@@wardog6667 I remember that video.
fart at france!!
Brings me back to the days of pulse jet engines on colinfurze's channel
Have you seen the stuff Robert Maddox has been up to with pulse jets?
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I'm actually amazed that he isn't hearing impaired with all the times he has started a pulsejet in his shed.
@@LurifaxDK Maybe he is haha
Back in the '80s I worked at a company that made model pulse jets, Curtis Dyna Products. They called them Dyna Jets. They were indeed *loud*. Hearing protection was a must. A university bought some of them from us to use as experimental sound sources in their experiments to sonically sterlize soil. I never heard how those experiments worked out.
I still have two old dyna jets that were my grandpa’s. He used them on competition speed ships. Basically control line “planes”. I know one is complete but one is missing a few things.
Remember going to Wings and Wheel every year back in the late 80's and seeing these strapped to a delta wing plane.. I think it was something like "ghost squadron" team that flew them... certainly were show stoppers, with everyone, including those in the beer tents stopping to watch them fly.. sadly complains from the old folks home some 2 mile away meant that they got banned from flying them as subsequent wings and wheels shows...
This noise can sonically sterilize people no? 😉
I remember those very well. My dad did the whole RC aviation thing when I was a kid and I remember guys showing up at the RC airport with Dynajet powered planes and how astoundingly loud they were and how they would echo off of the tree line a mile away
'sonically sterilize soil'
We started one of these in an enclosed aircraft hanger and it sounded like 50 shotguns going off at once.
Our boss came running in screaming his head off...but we couldn't hear him. 😂🇦🇺
Probably wanted to promote you?
@@JamieW-o7b😂😂😂😂
I brought a Pulse Jet to a model flying club in Australia in the 80's. Started it and was instantly banned
What a bunch of wusses, but then again it is Australia, the country where everything is banned or severely frowned upon.
Why?
When I saw the title the first thing I thought was "poor neighbours". Good that you realised they are extremly loud on a beach!
HA! We had one of these in auto shop in high school. Finally convinced the teacher to run it one day. Made so much noise, the principal came down to see what was going on. The auto shop was about the furthest classroom from his office.
We have lit a full scale of the eng that was used on the old buzz bomb used in the war back in the day, it will make your insides move in ways they never have and multiple layers of hearing protection is needed
If anything could create a "brown note", I bet those could.
no way it could be louder than an F16 engine on a test stand.
@@maddhatter3564 The F-16 engine is also more than an order of magnitude more powerful. Like 30 times more powerful.
@@maddhatter3564 That would be scary loud!!!
The loudest and highest velocity fart ever measured.
And yet it does not even compare to the sheer chaos that would be unleashed if someone were to eat all the Taco Bell currently in existence
When I was a kid about 12, I had one of these; a Dynajet; thinking back I can see how marvelous it was. Once it got loose putting a big dent in my dad's nice wooden runabout boat. The scene in the TV series "Young Sheldon" where the rocket flies crazily through the house always makes me smile a bit.
3:53 to 3:58 The same sound that my father makes when he gets up in the early morning to go to the bathroom.
It's way more fuel efficient than I expected. Given the amount of fuel you added to the tank, I was thinking it was too little. It barely moved as far as I could see.
And they cann basicly run on anything if you get it fine enough atomised so coal dust or heavy oil for example would work 😅
@@TheLtVoss I guess the problem would be delivering solid stuff like that fast enough to sustain it running.
@@ArsGoetia_72 well it is a challenge but in that case the Vibrations of the pulse jet could be beneficial
@@TheLtVoss How would the vibrations be beneficial?
IM PUMPED! Definitely wanna see this power a long board with you on it!!
One minute in and the p*** bots are here already, youtube still has not found a solution apparently. Love your videos mate!
Don’t u want to answer a question “ what mood you wake up in? “ 😂
I’m a bot. A bot to ask you why you’re not in crypto !
The problem is that they don't care. The comment bots make the numbers go up and therefore makes the investors happy.
@@thetoasterisonfire2080 Didn't someone build a spam comment removal program at some point?
@@Codexionyx101 Yep that's been made. But I can't remember who I saw use them. They worked though, with some caveats.
Johnny's dabbling in some ADVANCED tech now!
from 1930
Pulsejet is simpler than any combustion engine
They’re about the simplest engine ever, they’ve been around a long long time.
errr, what?
@@Smickster01I suspect he was being sarcastic.
Thats pretty cool. You took it out of town at least! I hear that video sound doesn't do it justice. Never heard one in real time but been told they are CRAZY loud
Крутой дядька, Михаилу мои слова благодарности и прибавка к карме за такого гостя!
На Кремль такую штуку запустить. Чемодан гов-а точно получить получится.
Scale model of V1 when?
I support this 👍
@@adobehitler1945 What are you gonna fire this on? Your jewish neighbors backyard?
@@Chester200100 I don't think the creator of this channel is from Gaza...
@@Chester200100 wouldnt make sense since Gemans never used these on Jewish. they used them on london.
I remember these from almost 70 years ago mountrf on model jet type planes-hand tossed-and flown at van Cortlandt Park in the upper n.w. Bronx. N.Y. -with all manner of free flight gas and iesel engine models plus the first tube 1 channel r.c. rudder only models-with the escapement wound up for use by long rubber bands. God Bless my brother who was interested in -and introduced me as a very young boy to such things! 50's America was an almost incomprenensibly better place in almost every way!
Excellent man. Love this. I am curious to know how much decibel level this device created near the engine. Of course curious to know the fuel-power and efficiency if you had measured them.
The heat! I thought the was going to start melting!
We made pulse jets at a company i used to work at in the '80s (Curtis Dyna Products) If you ran them too long and kept them stationary with no fan blowing over them, the stainless steel tubing would burn right through.
@@jbuchana I have a question for you. I know that pulse jets are very fuel inefficient but does that change with size or does it have more to do with simply how much fuel and air are run through the combustion chamber?
@@The_War_Pug I'm not relly sure, we only made one size of engine.
Can't wait to see a R/C V1.5 flying around
A V1 wasn't remotely controlled, it was autonomous. There are RC pulse jet powered planes around, though not many as there are too many noise complaints. ( Karen's everywhere )
"simple base" pulls out a whole lab equipment rack xD
😂
Looking forward to you installing it on the RC 4wd
I run mine on LPG. its a bit bigger and made from stainless steel, but has no reed valves to worry about. the supports are unable to stop the thrust from moving it, so I need to sit a few bricks on it, but yours is amazing, esp the cherry red heat.
Are the reed valve as opposed to tuned not better at varying airspeed and altitude?
Cool. What's the thrust???
2kg as per the seller... but this is a consumable toy, you can only fire it so many times, it's too expensive if you can only play with it so little and so little time each time, valves only last 1 minute... aluminium body will melt eventually...
@@GeomancerHT The body is steel, the intake is aluminium. It usualy stays cool enough to not overheat. The reeds lives a hard life tho
@@rasmus1600 by the color, it's stainless. Plain steel might rust on the inside and cause weird turbulence.
Robert Maddox would be proud of you
Wow!! And here I always thought these things ran a little hot. lol. Nice job!! : )
I was in a model airplane club {control-line and free-flight} back in the 1970s.
I remember seeing these things for sale in hobby shops -- specifically a brand called *_"Dyna-Jet"_* -- but as a teen I had nowhere near the money to buy one.
I never saw one flown, but some of the members of the club had seen them and told me about it. When I remember the most is them telling me these pulse jets were *LOUD.*
This is awesome. What kind of thrust did it produce?
4.5 pounds per the seller's website
Cool as heck, think a good addition would be a venturi at the tailpipe connected to a sheath to get some airflow over that chamber. For static use, anyway.
Was buzzing so loud it knocked things off of my shelf, I feel you Johnny haaha
I made the mistake of watching this video while listening to the radio.... even their songs were skipping
Phenomenal. Thank you so much for building and posting.
During WWII, the Nazis launched flying bombs, powered by pulsejet engines.....they were known as "Buzz Bombs".
Might as well wait for them to arrive since you'd hear em since launch
No they were called doodle bugs
@@andreluydens2602It was ok when you could hear them it was when they went silent that you knew they were going to fall out of the sky
@@GetStuffed1 You are both correct.
These things would make great tornado sirens 😅
i beg to differ
Just got one of these from Stirling Kits. Haven’t tried it yet, working on some kind of stand. I like what you came up with and may copy it with your permission 🙂. I had to laugh when I saw the digital “thrust” scale, exactly the same one I have, purchased for the same purpose. Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ 🤔
Made a valveless PJ out of titanium a few years back. It's about 38" long with a 6" combustion chamber. I use propane to fuel it. Much easier to start and with valveless PJs you throttle them way back. Anyway, I start it with a Campbell Hausfeld 20 gallon direct drive air compressor. You know, the REALLY loud obnoxious ones. At full throttle, the PJ is so loud it completely swamps out the air compressor, to the point where you can't even tell it's running. I can feel my chest cavity resonate with the jet. Yeah... They're loud.
15y ago i build few super small ones , smallest one used 7.62 shell second one was 12g co2 bottle from asg (both needed sustained rly small amount of airflow to work- i used for that air pump from blood pressure monitor) ---- they were so loud that neighbours were annoyed when i turned them on
How much trust did you get and how much fuel per time did it consume?
Thanks for the video
4:00 that one moscito when try to fall asleep
The noise could be altered with a wave type exit, also try angled holes and an additional pipe on the outside like a trombone for tuning length.
3:38 the cameraman was shocked
for a brief moment he deeply questioned his life choices
Well I've never seen a pulse jet started with foot pump. Kudos
Bluddy marvellous. Way to go sir!
No take off today😂
We had one at work, it was the smoke machine for emergency exercises.
That was MASSIVELY COOL!!! 😊
Yes, yes they are loud. Are you ready to graduate to turbocharged burn barrels next?
That started well. I've seen others that were a pig to get going 👍
Mhm probably the fuel and that it is a vaved one
It’s amazing how fast it got red hot😮
Nice. You should try making the rotating pulse engine next!
Very nice "simple stand"😉
amazing that it doesn't melt the stainless, but I suppose that if its flying then the air rush would cool the pipe
Hello
What about trust meter?
You forgot
I built several pulse jets 1980s - loudest thing ever - vibrate stuff of shelves in whole house - crazy heat - highest thrust 10 lbs -
fire ball is size of 30 gallon trash can in dark - its impressive - way to loud -
The way the camera person *jumped* when it started!
Those things are crazy loud though
Cool! That thing is freaking loud indeed 😂 but what was the thrust reading? You built a nice test rig but I'm curious for the results!
My favorite type of jet!
That looks exactly like a Mercury outboard boat motor Reed valve. The Reed valves on these motors are on the crankshaft journals.
nice, sounds like a 2-stroke engine at full rpm, like 20k or 200k rpm.
You might want to add a cross brace on your uprights. At that height your current stand might make the bearings less efficient and the readings could be well off.
Pretty freakin cool bro!
That would make a crazy siren.
I notice that the root of the slot between reed blades has a square end. This gives 2 stress riser points which could cause reed failure at the thinnest point of the blade. Try leaving a radius at the bottom of the slot. This should prolong reed life.
Very good work done
I was wondering about the rotor speed
That is an amazing fishing spot
Challenge for Johnny: making a mini turbofan with AFTERBURNER😊
The clamps are taking a lot of the heat out of the body and, presumably, transferring a good amount of it into the frame.
They made an even greater noise when the warhead they were attached to during WWII exploded in London !
It looks super hot 🔥 .... did you put a heat gun on it to see the temperature of it ?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing
More like a musical instrument than an engine !
Wicked. Which part of Aus did you blast out ear drums? Nice looking bay
I need one of these for the back yard, fire it up whenever all my neighbors are making too much noise lawn mowing and weed whipping!
yes johnny q 90, that was a reed valve engine, a proper pulse jet is 3 times as loud.
That thing has now deafened Poseidon, what a noise!
You do nice work.
Well, I think the 1:1 scale ones are louder but on a lower frequency so they hurt a little bit less - but you are feel them more in the stomach...
Best marshmallow cooler EVER!😂
What was the thrust of newtons. I saw you had a strain gauge with rolling sled
I need one of these as a home security alarm.
I think that one even scared the fish 😂
They called police 😅
Integza would be proud
Imagine having this as a ship horn. :-)
Great spot to run a pulse jet . What are we thinking, mate, a dragster or maybe a speed boat to go over to the island in this video, so where is this just a great backdrop.
This one runs on gas, but these things can run on anything as long as it's flammable, including solid fuel. It is perfectly doable to have a pulse jet that runs on coal dust, or even wheat flour.
Could you try running it on HydroDiesel. I think that would work and have been wanting to see someone with a pulse jet try that fuel. It may run considerably cooler with about the same amount of thrust.
how much thrust did you measure?
Q are you playing with fire again? Why yes Mr Bond, allow me to show you.
Now you should make an R/C model of a V 1 buzz bomb to put it to use!!
did it actually make 4lbs of thrust though?
Starting at first time !
Lovely kit. Any idea how long one valve lasts?
Well the "original" full sized ones almost lasted one flight.
Integza turbocharged his pulse jet, you should supercharge this one
RC airplane incoming!
Greetings from Germany.
Looks like my old dad's motorbike exhaust 😂
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When I was a kid 60 years ago I dreamed of having a Dynajet.