You can do a lot with 3D printing—even create a working model jet engine. As a final project for a jet engine manufacturing course at the University of Virginia, students led by Professor David ...

Matt Mikka, the guy behind the channel, has a history of building miniaturized piston engines, jet engines, and see-through engines. However, having them all combined is a real treat.

Jet engines have to be immensely powerful, but reliable enough to move us around safely – and building them is a laborious and expensive task.

Narrator: Besides building three different engines, Matt had to build the proper jet-engine control panels, including a setup for the driver that connected to the rear controls.

Bob Maddox once built the world’s largest pulse-jet engine and mounted it in a 1965 Jaguar. Star Wars audio engineers even recorded his pulse-jet engines for the movie Solo.