How's this for extra credit??
Jan. 30th, 2006 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundCypress Bay High School student builds a jet engine
""I just wanted something new to do," said Meyers, 17, of Weston.
What Meyers did was construct a 2-foot-long, 1-pound pulse jet engine. The pulse jet is a very simple form of internal combustion engine.
Meyers said pulse engines are extremely loud and inefficient. Their principal use came as flying bombs during the German bombing of London in World War II. The engine's loud droning noise earned it the nickname "buzz bomb.""
""I just wanted something new to do," said Meyers, 17, of Weston.
What Meyers did was construct a 2-foot-long, 1-pound pulse jet engine. The pulse jet is a very simple form of internal combustion engine.
Meyers said pulse engines are extremely loud and inefficient. Their principal use came as flying bombs during the German bombing of London in World War II. The engine's loud droning noise earned it the nickname "buzz bomb.""
