This TED Talk features inventor Richard Browning, recorded live at TED-2017.

Michael Browning, engineer, innovator, inventor, really,

an inspiring father.

He had a passion for flight,

as you can kind of sense from that

rather dubious 1970s

office leaving present.

And some 40 years after that was created,

a small group of us got together.

To have a go, a run at the whole challenge of flight that inspires, you know, inspired people for years, and do it in a very different kind of way.

And that's the journey I'd like to share with you now. The starting hypothesis was one of the human mind and body, as you've seen for the last few days here, is an amazing construct. And what if you augmented

that wonderful machine with just the right technology? If you approach flight in that kind of

raw way, where could you get to? So my training partner here back in London, Denton, is doing a

much better job of that kind of stuff than me. Guess what it's London? The idea was that you augment that.

And so how do you augment that?

Well, we bought one of these.

So this is a little micro-gas turbine.

This was ground zero.

So that little piece of kit proved really quite impressive.

So we got two and a field. The real here,

by the way, is a little, right in the background, there's a lady tending some vegetables. He does a

brilliant job of trying to ignore us for a while. I think the only thing less happy is the

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