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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @08:45PM (3 children)
Unless he's got a ton of signal processing to maintain the unstable equilibrium of having a bunch of thrust mounted on his limbs, he doesn't really have a prototype.
Since the 2nd video has a bit about developing his core via calisthenics I suspect he has no computers of any significance taking care of stabilization.
He's just using his own brain and muscles to keep from immediately going titsup.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 06 2017, @09:42PM (1 child)
Unless he's got a ton of signal processing to maintain the unstable equilibrium of having a bunch of thrust mounted on his limbs, he doesn't really have a prototype.
Well that's a rather arbitrary definition that lets you dismiss the hard work he's done.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06 2017, @11:02PM
Exactly what "hard work" has he done?
Because all it looks like to me is that he strapped a few off-the-shelf turbines on to his arms and his ass.
And then did a bunch of burpees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @09:17AM
Unless he's got a ton of signal processing to maintain the unstable equilibrium of having a bunch of thrust mounted on his limbs, he doesn't really have a prototype. He's just using his own brain and muscles to keep from immediately going titsup.
So, just like a Harrier...
Everything doesn't need to have the computing power of an F35B.