Video captures the amazing moment when Royal Navy personnel used jet packs to fly across New York Harbour and land aboard the Queen Elizabeth vessel.
As they approach the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the biggest and most powerful ship in the history of the Royal Navy, the sailors can be seen hovering above the harbor.
The soldiers are shown waving the Union Jack flag while flying over the Atlantic Ocean in tactical suits and helmet-steered weapon mounts while passengers on neighboring ships seem to be in awe of them.
The flights use more than 1000bhp of jet engine power to offer passengers a flying experience “likened to the real world Ironman,” according to ground-breaking technology from Gravity Industries.
The show was a component of the Atlantic Future Forum (AFF), a defense symposium on military, political, and strategic ties between the United States and Great Britain that was hosted aboard the British battleship.
During the AFF last month, British firm Gravity Industries successfully displayed their purported jet suits.
Air engineering technician Alex Wilson was one of the military members who took part in the ground-breaking fly around the harbor.
The Iron Man-inspired suits have a top speed of more than 85 mph and have a flight time of more than 10 minutes.
“The team and I are executing on the mission to create Gravity into a world-class aeronautical engineering firm, defy assumed limits in human flight, and inspire a generation to dare wonder “what if?”,” says the founder. Richard Browning, founder and chief test pilot, stated.
Before making his fortune with jet packs, Browning served in the British Royal Marines. He circled the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2020 using a 5-engine jet pack suit he built himself.
More than 1 billion individuals worldwide have experienced Gravity as of this writing.
For approximately two years, the Royal Navy has been putting the idea of Jet Suit assault squads to the test.
The two-day AFF, which is referred to be a “defence, security, commerce, and technology summit sponsored by UK Government,” was held on board the HMS Queen Elizabeth when it was in New York.
The purpose of the meeting was to examine “international security and the emerging technologies that will shape the next decade and beyond.”
Additionally, officials want to “strengthen the Euro-Atlantic alliance’s trade and economic foundations and enhance our security and defense relationships with like-minded, democratic friends.”
On September 25, the 65,000-ton HMS Queen Elizabeth landed in New York and anchored near the Statue of Liberty.
The £3.2 billion aircraft carrier departed from its home port of Portsmouth earlier in September to fill in for sister ship HMS Prince of Wales, which had set sail for America but had broken down hours earlier near the Isle of Wight.
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the biggest and most powerful battleship ever constructed in Britain. It is 280 meters in length, has a lifetime of 50 years, and has a flight deck that is four acres in size.