A flying Iron Man-style jet suit has gone on sale – though you may need to sell your house to buy it.
Just nine of the Gravity flight suits are available from Selfridges, costing £340,000 each.
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A demonstration outside the store showed a suit hovering a few metres above ground, although inventor Richard Browning says it’s capable of flying much higher.
The 3D-printed suit can fly at up to 32mph thanks to its lightweight exoskeleton design and several gas turbine engines attached to the arms and hips. It uses four litres of fuel per minute, which allows it to stay above ground for about four minutes.
Anyone lucky enough to afford the suit requires mandatory flight training, while everyone else can get a small taste of what it’s like through a virtual reality experience at the department store.
Mr Browning, who has been compared to Marvel’s Tony Stark from the Iron Man series, earned a Guinness World Record for the fastest speed in a body-controlled jet engine power suit last year.
