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The Inquirer reports on a British inventor who has built a suit with six jets:
The Daedalus suit, designed by former royal marine reservist Richard Browning, looks like a comic book fans' dream, combining four miniaturised arm-mounted gas turbine engines and two hip-mounted versions to provide enough lift to enable the wearer to fly.
Daedalus, which took Browning a year to put together, also features a heads-up display in the helmet which keeps the user aware of fuel and engine performance and features built-in WiFi support to allow for the live transmission of data from the suit.
So far, Browning has only flown the suit a couple of metres above the ground, but he claims that the system will ultimately be able to fly at several hundred miles per hour and at thousands of feet.
Two YouTube videos that largely overlap in footage show the suit in use.
Additional coverage:
- Engadget
- New Atlas
- Slash Gear
- Wired UK (may have countermeasures against ad blockers)
- Red Bull
- independent.ie
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(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Thursday April 06 2017, @07:28PM (2 children)
You might want to check the date on the youtube videos before commenting.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @07:52PM (1 child)
March 31, 2017? Is April Fools Day now April Fools Week?
Pretty sure this is real -- it's eminently feasible, and eminently stupid, so it's bound to be some guy's expensive hobby somewhere...
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Friday April 07 2017, @03:13PM
To clarify: 1 video on 31st of March, 1 on 1st of April.
Having a date of 31st of March isn't that weird - posted before midnight, picked up after midnight.
While I share your outlook that there's bound to be someone working on this somewhere on the planet, I'd be a lot less suspicious if the videos had been placed online 2 days later.