ROCKETMAN BOB MADDOX TAKES HIS JET ENGINE GO KART FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE RIDE
Robert "Rocketman" Maddox is a vibrant, untamed inventor who uses his unique creations to spread his contagious enthusiasm for life. His passion for thrust-powered machines grew over time as a result of growing up "watching rockets blast off to the Moon and Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner on his rocket/jet-powered machines on TV." These days, he builds his exhilarating cars with pulse-jet engines. They resemble driveable miniature rockets.
Maddox is in his 60s, but his enthusiasm for rockets hasn't diminished since he was ten years old and building "rocket-powered balsa wood aeroplanes powered with Jetex rocket motors." Although he has been doing it for years, he has decided in the last four years to regularly post videos of his inventions in motion to YouTube.
He recently unveiled Beast, a customised go-kart with a pulse-jet engine, in an episode of his ongoing series, which he aptly refers to as The Rocketman Show. Maddox is shown in the video sitting in Beast, poised to tear through a desert that is deserted. Once he starts, the pipes behind Maddox glow red, the ground below him blurring as he speeds above it, and the evening skies growing darker only highlight the blazing crimson heat. The danger his invention openly invites may be directly proportional to his joy at his speed and his creative world. His rocket go-kart has no airbags, no safeguards against the salt flats' hard surface, and none of the safety illusions that we common people like to construct around ourselves. Only Maddox, his lovely machine, and the wind with a smile on his face are present.
In reality, his wild rocket's engine is the glowing pipes. The U-shape regulates airflow and prevents the fuel from burning up all at once, while the bend of the pipes serves as the combustion chamber and is powered by pulse-jet technology. The heat at the brightest burn could range from 1900°F to 2300°F, but Maddox, wearing a black T-shirt and a blue helmet, is unfazed. His creations are the biggest pulse-jet-powered machines on the planet, and it's clear that he enjoys riding them. He has a joyful expression on his face above his thick beard, and his eyes tell you that this is how we should all age. Maddox is enjoying himself, creating things, and experiencing life to the fullest.