---
title: "Watch a Daring Fellow Fly an Iron Man-Style Jet Suit"
description: "Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning straps on his company's Iron Man-style jet suit in a new video from Born to Engineer."
date: "2019-05-13"
modified: "2019-05-17"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/watch-fly-iron-man-style-jet-suit"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "gravity"
  - "jet suit"
  - "richard browning"
  - "the digest"
---

# Watch a Daring Fellow Fly an Iron Man-Style Jet Suit

![Gravity Industries founder Richard Browning straps on his company's Iron Man-style jet suit in a new video from Born to Engineer.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/watch-fly-iron-man-style-jet-suit.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Gravity Industries/Facebook\</em\>*

## Flying High

Being an entrepreneur means being willing to take some risks. But Richard Browning doesn't just put money on the line for his company — he risks his own life.

In 2017, Browning founded [Gravity Industries](<https://gravity.co/>). And since then, he's served as the chief test pilot for the company's [flagship product](<https://futurism.com/real-life-iron-man-jet-pack-smashed-world-speed-records>), an Iron Man-style jet suit.

In a newly released [video](<https://youtu.be/hla5u3JgNjc>), Browning dons the latest version of the suit to fly over a lush green landscape — demonstrating how a concept once relegated to sci-fi is now an incredible reality.

https://youtu.be/hla5u3JgNjc

## Calculated Risk

The video is the work of [Born to Engineer](<https://www.borntoengineer.com/>), a UK campaign to get young people interested in engineering. In it, Browning credits his willingness to take risks for the rapid advances in his company's jet suit.

"Something that I think is responsible for why we've made such rapid progress is really all about learning from safe failure," Browning said in the video. "Ten minutes from making a modification here in the lab, we can be out there testing it. And if that involves falling from a couple of feet onto either boarding or even concrete, you assess quickly, 'What's the risk of that?'"

"If you're reasonably well padded and armored up, then actually that's a risk worth taking," he concluded.

**READ MORE:** ['A Risk Worth Taking' – Richard Browning Is Born To Engineer](<https://www.borntoengineer.com/a-risk-worth-taking-richard-browning-is-born-to-engineer>) \[*Born to Engineer*\]

**More on Gravity:** *[A Real-Life “Iron Man” Jet Pack Just Smashed World Speed Records](<https://futurism.com/real-life-iron-man-jet-pack-smashed-world-speed-records>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)