Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit
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
1970s office-leaving present.
that inspired people for years,
to share with you now.
of the human mind and body,
for the last few days here,
that wonderful machine
in that kind of real way,
back in London, Denton,
of that kind of stuff than me.
proved really quite impressive,
is, right in the background,
of trying to ignore us for a while --
less happy is the grass,
and somewhat fail.
to go from there:
watching these back.
and spread the load a bit.
about trying things --
by failing at them most of the time.
five engines here --
one was in maintenance,
We learned not to do that again.
some really quite convincing progress,
believe that maybe --
and two on each arm,
I'm about to show you now,
reasonably coherent flight.
this endeavor went from:
this is going to work,"
the best way to learn.
really refining the layout of all of this.
that's stability and control --
refining the technology,
on the back for the electronics
the balance and control.
for the next short piece
noise is a bit annoying.
is really quite nice,
validates that starting hypothesis,
if properly augmented in that way,
I'm moving my arms at that stage.
of where I want to get to,
to go down to Walmart
in any of this stuff for a while,
some awesome technology
this look like child's play.
this unusual experience of flight
and displays we're doing.
for pilots two and three,
but let's just stick it out there,
rise up above a beach,
of it, rise up a bit higher,
we're working on to make this achievable.
a Hercules with the ramp down.
you start picking up speed
that would be a mistake --
way off at the moment.
a big step back from this,
personal journey for me.
his own life when I was 15,
of unfulfilled ambition.
if it was possible,
of the things we've done here,
I'm probably more nervous
to get done today.
we don't get a clean start.
while I'm actually flying around.
and fall on my rear, as I said.
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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