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Here’s one way of beating traffic on your way to work – as long as the ride there doesn’t last longer than 9 minutes, or you’ll run out of fuel.
The Gravity jet suit invented by Richard Browning, which has already been displayed publicly to great success several times, is now on sale at the exclusive Selfridges in London. When you hear for how much it sells, you’ll understand why you can only find it there.
Browning himself took the jet suit out for a spin last week, as a means to boost interest in it, now that it’s becoming commercially available. To purchase one, you’ll need to dig deep in your pockets, as it costs £340,000 (approximately $445,898).
For this kind of money, you get the promise of flight at a decent speed and an impressive altitude, but chances are you’ll be able to fully enjoy neither because of its high fuel consumption. In other words, you can hover a bit with the suit and then land it again to refuel.
“This consumes about four liters a minute in the hover (position) so you can fly for three or four minutes quite easily and we have got another version - certainly on a cold day when you get more thrust, it'll fly for about nine minutes,” Browning told the media at the event.
“That's something we're looking to improve but it's the inevitable consequence of flying without wings,” he adds.
Browning also describes the suit as “very passive and gentle when you’re flying it,” though it might look different to someone looking at it in action. It also generates plenty of warmth.
The suit reaches a speed of 32mph and can go as high as 12,000 feet. Browning himself only flies a few feet above the ground for safety reasons, so it’s best if you follow his lead on this one.
If you hit up Selfridges, you should know that you can also try out the suit in virtual reality, to get an idea of what it would be like to actually fly it. You know, it’s best to make an informed purchase.
Browning himself took the jet suit out for a spin last week, as a means to boost interest in it, now that it’s becoming commercially available. To purchase one, you’ll need to dig deep in your pockets, as it costs £340,000 (approximately $445,898).
For this kind of money, you get the promise of flight at a decent speed and an impressive altitude, but chances are you’ll be able to fully enjoy neither because of its high fuel consumption. In other words, you can hover a bit with the suit and then land it again to refuel.
“This consumes about four liters a minute in the hover (position) so you can fly for three or four minutes quite easily and we have got another version - certainly on a cold day when you get more thrust, it'll fly for about nine minutes,” Browning told the media at the event.
“That's something we're looking to improve but it's the inevitable consequence of flying without wings,” he adds.
Browning also describes the suit as “very passive and gentle when you’re flying it,” though it might look different to someone looking at it in action. It also generates plenty of warmth.
The suit reaches a speed of 32mph and can go as high as 12,000 feet. Browning himself only flies a few feet above the ground for safety reasons, so it’s best if you follow his lead on this one.
If you hit up Selfridges, you should know that you can also try out the suit in virtual reality, to get an idea of what it would be like to actually fly it. You know, it’s best to make an informed purchase.
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