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Boffin Builds, Flies Jet Suit

posted by martyb on Thursday April 06 2017, @06:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the beware-of-icing dept.

butthurt submitted a story which was updated to be:

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:

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @06:37AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @06:37AM (#490108)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @12:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @12:29PM (#490176)

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 07 2017, @02:56PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday April 07 2017, @02:56PM (#490254)

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