Bruce Simpson is the editor of Aardvark Science and Technology News and Commentary. Based in Tokoroa, New Zealand, he is notorious as the guy who built his own DIY cruise missile for under $5,000. He’s known as Missile Man and Rocket Man and appears on TV productions including acting as a technical adviser or “expert” for Junkyard Wars, Scrapheap Challenge and Let’s Get Inventing. He’s also built a massive pulse-jet powered dragster that’s used “to scare the snot out of movie stars” and has appeared on several TV shows. This guy reminds me of another New Zealander: Burt Munro from The World’s Fastest Indian – a guy with a dream who keeps refining his inventions in his local back yard. In this case Bruce tests his jet engine inventions out on the Tokoroa airstrip.

Here’s a video of Temuera Morrison trying out the pulse-jet JetKart at Tokoroa.

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Check out Bruce’s XJet YouTube channel