Demo flight pilot Richard Browning, a former Royal Marine reservist and ultra-marathon runner, invented the jet pack and worked with the Royal Navy on the development of his project.
Browning, who founded Gravity Industries in 2017, made a short flight around the aircraft carrier, stunning the passengers of a nearby passing private yacht.
"Now this is the way to travel to work! What a fantastic viewpoint of the ship - what you can’t see is the queue of excited matelots wanting to have a go! From one type of jet #UKF35 to another @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19," wrote the Twitter account of the HMS Queen on the post.
Now this is the way to travel to work! What a fantastic viewpoint of the ship - what you can’t see is the queue of excited matelots wanting to have a go! From one type of jet #UKF35 to another @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19 pic.twitter.com/wByj3lXH6D
— HMS Queen Elizabeth (@HMSQNLZ) November 21, 2019
Browning’s jet pack uses five small but powerful gas turbines to produce over 1,000 horsepower, allowing it to travel at speeds up to 89 km/h.
The longest flight made by Browning and his new jet pack occurred in September, as he succeeded in crossing a distance of 1.3 km from Hurst Castle in Lymington, to Fort Albert in Freshwater.
Someone needed to leave the ship in a hurry! We do have seaboats you know @takeonGravity #WESTLANT19 pic.twitter.com/AtJ45dxi5q
— HMS Queen Elizabeth (@HMSQNLZ) November 20, 2019
