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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
montre ce cadeau de départ de son travail,
1970s office-leaving present.
qui a inspiré des gens pendant des années
that inspired people for years,
très différente.
to share with you now.
partager avec vous.
of the human mind and body,
sur le corps et l'esprit,
for the last few days here,
that wonderful machine
cette magnifique machine
in that kind of real way,
jusqu'où pourrions-vous aller ?
ici de retour à Londres, Denton,
back in London, Denton,
dans ce domaine.
of that kind of stuff than me.
Eh bien, nous avons acheté ça.
fait forte impression.
proved really quite impressive,
is, right in the background,
est là, à l'arrière-plan,
de nous ignorer un moment.
of trying to ignore us for a while --
less happy is the grass,
de les maintenir horizontaux.
and somewhat fail.
manière d'aller plus loin :
to go from there:
watching these back.
j'adore regarder ces vidéos.
and spread the load a bit.
à comment répartir la charge.
pour supporter une charge,
mieux répartir la charge ?
mais qui n'a pas bien marché,
différentes choses
about trying things --
vraiment fonctionné...
by failing at them most of the time.
par l'échec la plupart du temps,
sous la forme de chutes.
five engines here --
one was in maintenance,
Encore une bonne leçon.
We learned not to do that again.
70 kilos sur chaque bras.
quelques progrès convaincants,
some really quite convincing progress,
que peut-être, peut-être,
believe that maybe --
and two on each arm,
par jambe et deux par bras
je vais vous montrer.
I'm about to show you now,
reasonably coherent flight.
raisonnablement cohérent.
est passée de
this endeavor went from:
à « Oh mon dieu, ça marche ! »
this is going to work,"
the best way to learn.
manière d'apprendre.
really refining the layout of all of this.
la configuration de tout ça.
that's stability and control --
pour affiner la technique,
refining the technology,
on the back for the electronics
pour l'électronique,
l'équilibre et le contrôle.
the balance and control.
vos oreilles en parlant sur le son,
for the next short piece
peut être perturbant.
noise is a bit annoying.
et le contrôle sont bons.
is really quite nice,
valide mon hypothèse de départ :
validates that starting hypothesis,
correctement augmentés, comme ici,
if properly augmented in that way,
du mouvement de mes bras.
I'm moving my arms at that stage.
of where I want to get to,
il me semble que j'atterris dans ce test.
que vous irez faire vos courses
to go down to Walmart
à l'école avec cet engin.
in any of this stuff for a while,
une technologie incroyable
some awesome technology
comme un jeu d'enfant.
this look like child's play.
à un public plus large
this unusual experience of flight
and displays we're doing.
les pilotes numéro deux et trois
for pilots two and three,
but let's just stick it out there,
rise up above a beach,
nous élever encore un peu
of it, rise up a bit higher,
que nous sommes en train de créer.
we're working on to make this achievable.
avec la rampe ouverte.
a Hercules with the ramp down.
de la vitesse pour le rattraper,
you start picking up speed
ce serait une erreur.
that would be a mistake --
ceci reste ambitieux.
way off at the moment.
a big step back from this,
si je prends un peu de recul,
très personnel pour moi.
personal journey for me.
quand j'avais 15 ans,
his own life when I was 15,
d'ambitions inachevées.
of unfulfilled ambition.
un créateur marginal.
if it was possible,
en voyant tout cela.
of the things we've done here,
I'm probably more nervous
à faire aujourd'hui.
to get done today.
we don't get a clean start.
while I'm actually flying around.
un idiot et tomber à l'arrière.
and fall on my rear, as I said.
si cela arrive.
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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