ORIGINAL: seanreit
After seeing the show and viewing your website again, all I can say is PURE GENIOUS!! I got a kick out of thinking wouldn't it be awesome to show up to one of the jet meets next year with a cart such as your designs. Glad to see you follow the forums. Thanks so much for sharing.
Funny you should mention that -- we had a turbine fly-in here about a month ago and I rolled out the pulsejets and my jet-kart. Everyone was enthralled (and somewhat deafened) :-)
I gather that pulsejets are persona non grata for RC aircraft in most countries but since, if designed correctly, they can be throttled quite effectively and, in the case of valveless designs, are very reliable, I don't consider them to be any more dangerous than turbines. Certainly there's no risk of a turbine or compressor fragmenting and showering the area with schrapnel. Even the issue of opeating temperature can be addressed through proper shrouding -- which can also provide additional thrust and efficiency.
The good old Dynajet -- the engine most people associate with the term "pulsejet' has long since been superceded in terms of performance, reliabilty and flexibility.