Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit
Richard Browning: Como eu construí um fato a jacto
Richard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology startup Gravity, which has invented, built and patented a personal flight system. Full bio
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as you can kind of sense
como podem ver
1970s office-leaving present.
escritório nos anos 70.
ter sido criado,
num pequeno grupo
that inspired people for years,
que inspirou pessoas durante anos,
to share with you now.
partilhar com vocês agora.
of the human mind and body,
e corpo humano,
for the last few days here,
that wonderful machine
in that kind of real way,
aspecto mais real,
back in London, Denton,
aqui em Londres, Denton,
melhor que eu neste tipo de coisa.
of that kind of stuff than me.
proved really quite impressive,
muito impressionante,
is, right in the background,
cuidar dos vegetais,
of trying to ignore us for a while --
a tentar ignorar-nos...
less happy is the grass,
and somewhat fail.
chegar a algum lado.
to go from there:
rever isto.
watching these back.
and spread the load a bit.
distribuir o peso.
para aguentar carga,
o peso aí?"
about trying things --
foi experimentar coisas...
pois não?
by failing at them most of the time.
vezes.
five engines here --
one was in maintenance,
linha de combustível.
Não voltaremos a fazê-lo.
We learned not to do that again.
some really quite convincing progress,
believe that maybe --
and two on each arm,
cada braço,
I'm about to show you now,
vou mostrar agora,
reasonably coherent flight.
coerente de seis segundos.
this endeavor went from:
vai resultar!"
this is going to work,"
the best way to learn.
a melhor maneira de aprender.
really refining the layout of all of this.
realmente a aperfeiçoar.
that's stability and control --
refining the technology,
aperfeiçoamento,
on the back for the electronics
com a electrónica —
the balance and control.
na próxima peça,
for the next short piece
do motor torna-se perturbador.
noise is a bit annoying.
is really quite nice,
são bastante bons,
validates that starting hypothesis,
a hipótese inicial,
if properly augmented in that way,
se aumentados desta maneira,
meus braços naquele momento.
I'm moving my arms at that stage.
of where I want to get to,
para onde quero ir,
uma mota,
to go down to Walmart
durante uns tempos,
in any of this stuff for a while,
a construir uma tecnologia brutal
some awesome technology
pareça uma brincadeira.
this look like child's play.
this unusual experience of flight
and displays we're doing.
eventos e demonstrações.
dos pilotos dois e três,
for pilots two and three,
but let's just stick it out there,
poderemos sobrevoar uma praia,
rise up above a beach,
subir um pouco mais,
of it, rise up a bit higher,
a modificar para tornar isto possível.
we're working on to make this achievable.
vem um avião Hércules com a rampa aberta.
a Hercules with the ramp down.
you start picking up speed
e vemos se o conseguimos interceptar
that would be a mistake --
isso seria um erro —
way off at the moment.
um pouco longe.
a big step back from this,
personal journey for me.
muito pessoal para mim.
his own life when I was 15,
quando eu tinha 15 anos
of unfulfilled ambition.
por alcançar.
if it was possible,
se fosse possível,
perante algumas das coisas que alcançámos.
of the things we've done here,
Eu estou provavelmente mais nervoso
I'm probably more nervous
to get done today.
começo hoje.
we don't get a clean start.
enquanto eu estiver a voar.
while I'm actually flying around.
o pior que pode acontecer
and fall on my rear, as I said.
isso acontecer.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Richard Browning - Founder, GravityRichard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology startup Gravity, which has invented, built and patented a personal flight system.
Why you should listen
Richard Browning is an ultra-marathon runner, an ex-Royal Marine reservist, former City commodity trader and a pioneering inventor. He's the founder of Gravity, launched in March 2017 with a dream to reimagine an entirely new form of human flight, leaning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by leading-edge technology.
Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60m within seven days of launch. Browning's vision is to build Gravity into a world-class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire a generation to dare ask ‘what if…’
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