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 ...

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 ...

An attentive reader tipped us off to the guys at Mobacken Racing (translation), a group of Swedes dedicated to the art and craft of putting jet and rocket engines on go karts and snowmobiles. One of ...

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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 ...