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.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 06 2017, @07:44PM (1 child)
...to replace the outdated and pointless use of commas in headlines.
No-one ever speaks like this. Why would you write like this?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by gidds on Friday April 07 2017, @12:54PM
B e c a u s e H e a d l i n e s O f t e n H a v e T o F i t I n A N a r r
(I agree, though: the linguistic contortions that some headline writers use do such violence to the language that they become very difficult to follow.)
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