You can buy your own hover-suit for £340k. I want one

[editor]

Incredible stuff!

The 3D-printed suit weighs 27kg and uses five kerosene-fuelled micro gas turbines, two attached to each arm and one at the back, and is controlled by body movement.

A world first, it was created by former desk-bound City worker Richard Browning, a real-life British version of Marvel’s Tony Stark. He drew an on-the-spot $650,000 investment from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who watched him take off last year.

In November he set a Guinness World Record flying at 32mph above a lake in Reading, but in theory the suit can go as fast as the human body can stand, about 180 mph. It uses four litres of fuel per minute. Fan Tom Cruise will have training next month, said Mr Browning, who is in talks with stunt co-ordinators for James Bond and Mission Impossible. The inventor also says he has a “really exciting” collaboration with the military.

Now nine wealthy buyers can claim a custom-made version and full flight training from Selfridges. A virtual reality version — using content captured on a real flight — is on offer for Londoners to test.

Bosse Myhr, menswear and technology director at the store, said: “The Jet Suit is the equivalent to the launch of the very first aeroplane. We are on the cusp of an era where aeronautical technology can finally be in the hands of the consumer and we are proud to be the first to offer this.” Mr Browning, 39, worked for BP in Canary Wharf for 16 years. When he began testing engines two years ago with help from a software engineer and volunteers, he initially saw the experiments — inspired by his engineer and inventor father — as a hobby.

Yahoo is now part of Oath

 

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[Pickman's model]

The amount of exhaust that must blast onto mere pedestrians...

 

[editor]

T'is the future!

 

[JimW]

If we find out you've blown (literally) the server fund on this, there'll be ructions, my lad!

 

[twentythreedom]

Awesome

Where can I buy one?

 

[JimW]

Though we won't be able to catch you.

 

[twentythreedom]

The amount of exhaust that must blast onto mere pedestrians...

Yes, "mere" pedestrians indeed Get out the way or get burnt. I doubt I'd give a fuck either if I was him tbh

 

[DotCommunist]

Tony Stark doesn't sound like a giant hairdryer.

 

[Poot]

This is what we were promised. This is it. We have arrived in the actual future now. I mean obviously it needs more tinfoil and bubblewrap and neon but finally it's all starting to make sense. For a while we got waylaid by Brexit and Trump and shit but I'm feeling a lot more positive now.

Do you think it will work on Mars?

 

[Wilf]

The amount of exhaust that must blast onto mere pedestrians...

If I got any more than about 6 feet up, that's not the only thing that I'd be dropping on pedestrians.

 

[Sunset Tree]

When I was a kid I thought in the future we'd all have something like this. It's funny how personal flying machines have proven such a difficult task despite our technological advances. How long can you stay in the air with this? At four litres of fuel per minute I imagine not long.

 

[twentythreedom]

Tony Stark doesn't sound like a giant hairdryer.

YOU'RE a giant hairdryer

 

[Sunset Tree]

If you could get one of these that kept you in the air for an hour, half an hour even, it could be world changing and not just a novelty. Imagine flying to the next town, amazing.

 

[JimW]

I'd rather live in a world that was mostly walkable.

 

[High Voltage]

I can see one of these being a major feature on a certain bands "rider" requirements when they tour the US next year

 

[Indeliblelink]

Haven't we been here before?

 

[DexterTCN]

If they attach some vuvuzelas...I'm in.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Incredible stuff!

4l of fuel a minute.

 

[mather]

More useless tat for the rich to waste their money on.

 

[keybored]

4l of fuel a minute.

Making it almost 10 times thirstier per person, per minute, than traveling on a 747. And covering only a fraction of the distance in that minute.

 

[Wilf]

Making it almost 10 times thirstier per person, per minute, than traveling on a 747. And covering only a fraction of the distance in that minute.

So, basically, the shittest form of transport ever. Is there a single realistic application for this or is it just that perfect meeting of rich wankerdom and pointless inventordom?

 

[elbows]

So, basically, the shittest form of transport ever. Is there a single realistic application for this or is it just that perfect meeting of rich wankerdom and pointless inventordom?

Fighting crime in black and white.

 

[IC3D]

This is going to turn the leaf blowing industry on its head

 

[Fez909]

How does it work?

Looks like the jets are attached to the arms? That means unless there's some exo-skeleton type thing going up around the body, it'd be like holding yourself up by your arms...all the time.

We're going to all look like this in the future:

 

[2hats]

This is going to turn the leaf blowing industry on its head

Only if they are used incorrectly or malfunction.

 

[keybored]

How does it work?

Looks like the jets are attached to the arms? That means unless there's some exo-skeleton type thing going up around the body, it'd be like holding yourself up by your arms...all the time.

I think the main jet is worn on the back and the ones on the arms control direction.

 

[Fez909]

I think the main jet is worn on the back and the ones on the arms control direction.

That makes more sense, thanks

 

[keybored]

That makes more sense, thanks

Then again, look at the video here from about 3.15
This amazing real-life Iron Man suit really flies

If that's the upper-body strength required to use this thing, I'm out.