Miniature Jets and rockets was a fascination I had, as a kid … but of course I never really had one, except the water propelled type that would shoot up about 100+ feet (as I recall it, the water rocket was supposed to go up 1000 feet, but I'm sure it did not, must be my memory, or child fascination that exaggerated the distance).   Seems like some people, like John Williamson, really get off on seeing miniature jets flying - I guess I must be one of them!

"…Basically they (Miniature Jet Engines) are a simple empty tube with a fuel injector and a reed valve in the front. No throttle and they start and stop instantaneously, and this also makes you jump! Radio Control and good piloting skills are essential!"

But I remember the same stuff that goes into making a Miniature Jet Plane fly, can also power a mobile device, like your cell phone, according to New Scientist.

"…Engineers have moved a step closer to batch producing miniaturised, jet engine-based generators from a single stack of bonded silicon wafers. These chip-based “microengines” could one day power mobile electronic devices."

And if you wanted to build a Miniature Jet Engine – you could just follow the instructions on the HOW TO BUILD MINIATURE JET ENGINES Page:

"….here are 4 miniature engines that offer enormous power for their size. These engines can be used to power miniature boats, trains, cars, (jet) planes, or whatever! Providing as much as 1 h.p., they can power even large-size models. Or, the builder can choose to scale them up to achieve even greater power."

Today, I saw a YouTube video titled: 1/5th Scaled MIG-29 Looks, Sounds and Probably Tastes Like a Fighter-Jet on Gizmodo that had me transfixed; here's the video:

1/5 Scaled Mig 29 – First Flight – video powered by Metacafe

I think if you go in about 3:15 seconds, you'll see the the Miniature MiG-29 Jet flying and then it's hypnotic rapture for the rest of the clip.

"… the team has seemingly created a sweet RC scaled MIG-29, costing between $5,000_$15,000 and the replica was fitted with two turbine engines, which were not tested at their full capacity…".

Also, I got interested seeing what kind of buzz was created by this video, or videos like this one, since there's a community built around Miniature Jets that must be pretty enthusiastic – it's not something you build unless you know what your doing and you love Miniature Jets.

But what I found here, was Blogpulse data was not much help, since the spike represented only one blog post; so I figured I'd look elsewhere to see what the video I'd just seen about a Miniature Jet MIG-29 might have created – especially since it appeared in Gizmodo.  Figured TalkDigger might help with finding out the Buzz on both the term "Miniature Jet" and the Gizmodo URL that features the MIG-29 Miniature Jet.

Turned out that TalkDigger didn't help much either – so I opened up my Compete.com Search Analytics account that still has some credit on it since I was a beta tester for it earlier this year.

Quantcast also has a keyword research tool but it doesn't have enough data on Miniature Jet to tell me anything.

But if nothing else, I can  enjoy watching the MIG-29 Miniature Jet Movie above.