How I built a jet suit | Richard Browning

Translator: Alex Pérez Reviewer: Jone Aliri Lazcano

Michael Browning: engineer,

Michael Browning: ingeniaria,

innovator --

berritzailea...

inventor, really --

asmatzailea berez...

and inspiring father.

eta aita motibatzailea.

He had a passion for flight, as you can kind of sense

Pilotatzea zen bere grina, hortaz uler daiteke

from that rather dubious 1970s office-leaving present.

zergaitik oparitu zioten dudazko marrazki hori 1970ean erretiroa hartzean.

And some 40 years after that was created,

Berrogei urte geroago,

a small group of us got together

zenbait pertsona elkartu ginen

to have a go,

saiatzeko,

a run at the whole challenge of flight that inspired people for years,

hegan egitearen erronkari, jendea urteetan inspiratu duenari,

and do it in a very different kind of way.

modu desberdin batean ekiteko.

And that's the journey I'd like to share with you now.

Eta bidaia hau zuekin partekatu nahi dut.

The starting hypothesis was one of the human mind and body,

Giza gorputza eta arimaren oinarrizko hipotesiarekin hasiko gara,

which, as you've seen for the last few days here,

hemen azken egunetan ikusi dugun bezalaxe,

is an amazing construct.

izugarrizko kontzeptua da.

What if you augmented that wonderful machine

Eta zer, aparatu izugarri hau hobetuko bagenu

with just the right technology?

teknologia egokiarekin?

If you approach flight in that kind of real way,

Hegan egitea modu honetan aztertzen bada

where could you get to?

noraino iritsi gaitezke?

So my training partner here back in London, Denton,

Hortaz, Londresen, nire entrenamendu kideak, Denton,

is doing a much better job of that kind of stuff than me.

nik baino lan hobea egiten du horrelako gauzetan.

Guess what? It's London.

Badakizue zer? Londres da.

The idea was that you augment that.

Ideia hau hobetzea zen.

And so, how do you augment that?

Eta, nola hobetzen da hau?

Well, we bought one of these.

Beno, hauetako bat erosi genuen

This is a micro gas turbine.

Hau gasezko mikro-turbina bat da.

This was ground zero,

Hemen zegoen geure oinarria

so that little piece of kit proved really quite impressive,

eta makineria pieza txiki honek, izugarria zirudien

so we got two in a field.

beraz bi eraman genituen landa eremura.

The real hero here, by the way, is, right in the background,

Benetako eroia, bide batez, atzeko aldean ikus daiteke,

there's a lady tending some vegetables,

Barazkiekin dabilen emakumea,

who does a brilliant job of trying to ignore us for a while --

lan bikaina egiten du ikusten ez gaituenaren itxura eginez

(Laughter)

(Barre algarak)

I think the only thing less happy is the grass,

Uste dut hainbeste dibertitzen ez dena belarra dela

that we did probably damage quite badly.

nahiko kaltetuta gelditu baitzen.

You get an idea of the thrust here,

Hemen bereizi dezakezue bultzada

when I try to hold them horizontally and somewhat fail.

horizontalki mantentzen saiatu nintzenean huts eginez.

50 bat kg-ko bultzada.

That's around 50 kilos of thrust there.

We were quite impressed with that.

Nahikoa zirraratu gintuen.

We thought we were getting somewhere.

Zerbait lortu genuela uste geunen.

So there's only one sensible way to go from there:

Beraz, aurrera egiteko bide bakarra zegoen:

you get four.

Lau turbina izatea.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

I have to say, I still like watching these back.

Irudi hauek berriro ikustea atsegin dut.

So then we thought well, let's try and spread the load a bit.

Hobeto pentsatzean, zama hobeto banatzen saiatu ginen.

The legs are designed to take the load,

Hankak zama eramateko diseinatuak daude,

so why don't we spread it out a bit?

Beraz, zergatik ez apur bat banatu?

That bit was good.

Erabaki egokia izan zen.

The harness --

Arnesa...

a nice idea but it didn't really work,

Beste ideia on bat, funtzionatu ez zuena,

as you'll see now.

Ikusiko duzuen bezala.

This whole journey was very much about trying things --

Gauzak frogatzen saiatu ginen bidai osoan zehar.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

Yeah, it really didn't work, did it?

Bai, ez zuen funtzionatu. Ezta?

Trying things and learning by failing at them most of the time.

Gauzak frogatzen eta akatsetatik ikasten kasu gehienetan.

And that included failing by falling over.

Baita erorialdiaren akatsa ere.

If you notice, we've got five engines here --

Behatzen baduzue, hemen bost motore genituen

not to be put off by the fact one was in maintenance,

Bat mantenu lanetan bazegoen ere, erabili egin genuen

still had a go.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

And then I pinched a fuel line.

Eta gas hodia puskatu nuen.

Ongi. Berriro ez egiten ikasi genuen.

So again, good learning. We learned not to do that again.

This was a blind alley.

Hura kale itsu bat zen.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

This was three on each arm --

3 beso bakoitzean,

that was ridiculous.

barregarria izan zen.

That was 70 kilos on each arm.

70kg beso bakoitzean.

Again, struck that one off.

Beste behin, esperimentu txarra.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

But we were starting to make some really quite convincing progress,

Baina zenbait aurrerapen sinesgarri egiten hasi ginen,

just enough to make you believe that maybe --

agian lortuko genuela pentsarazteko nahikoak.

maybe we could get there.

You can see, look -- tantalizing.

Ikusi, erakargarria dirudi.

The model of one on each leg and two on each arm,

Hanka bakoitzean bana eta beso bakoitzean bina,

on paper, that was enough thrust.

paperean behintzat fidagarria zen.

And then we did what I'm about to show you now,

Eta ondoren orain erakutsiko dizuedana egin genuen,

and I still love watching this one.

oraindik gustuko dut hau ikustea.

This was our first six-second, reasonably coherent flight.

Lehen aldiz, 6 segunduko hegaldi nahiko jarraia

(Applause)

(Txaloak)

That was the point where this endeavor went from:

Eta puntu horretan pasa ginen

"I'm really not sure this is going to work,"

"Ez dakit funtzionatuko duen" esalditik

to: "Oh my god, it does work!"

"Jainkoa! badabil!".

From there on we then refined it,

Eta hortik aurrera hobetzen hasi ginen,

but we carried on falling over a lot.

askotan erortzen jarraituz.

Falling over, like I say, is definitely the best way to learn.

Erorketak, ikasteko modurik hoberenak dira.

After a while, we starting really refining the layout of all of this.

Ondoren, planoa hobetzen hasi ginen.

And you'll see, that's stability and control --

Ikusiko duzue, hau da egonkortasun eta kontrola

there's no wires there or anything --

Ez dago haririk ez ezer--

that's a combination of us refining the technology,

Gure konbinazio bat zen, teknologia hobetzeko,

including with a Tupperware box on the back for the electronics

Tupperware kaxa batean elektronika gordeaz

and actually learning the balance and control.

eta, egonkortasuna eta kontrola hobetzen ikasiaz.

I'm now going to save your ears for the next short piece

Orain, zuen belarriak hau entzuteaz salbuetsiko ditut

and talk over it.

eta horretaz hitz egin.

After a while, the jet engine noise is a bit annoying.

Denbora pasa ondoren, motor zarata gogaikarria da.

This is only a few weeks ago.

Hau duela aste gutxi zen.

You can see the stability and control is really quite nice,

Ikus dezakezue egonkortasuna eta kontrola nahiko ona dela.

and I'd like to think this somewhat validates that starting hypothesis,

Pentsatu nahiko nuke honek hasierako hipotesia indartzen duela,

that the human mind and body, if properly augmented in that way,

giza adimenak eta gorputzak, behar bezala erabiliz,

can achieve some pretty cool stuff.

gauza interesgarriak lor ditzakeela.

I mean, like I said:

Esan nahi dut, esan dudan bezala:

I'm not thinking about where I'm moving my arms at that stage.

Une honetan ez naiz pentsatzen ari besoak nora mugitzen ari naizen.

I'm looking at the objective of where I want to get to,

Nora joan nahi dudan pentsatzen dut,

and a bit like riding a bike,

eta bizikletan ibiltzearen antzera,

my arms are just doing their thing.

nire besoak beren lana egiten ari dira.

It's a very strange experience.

Nahiko esperientzia arraroa da.

So where is all this headed?

Hortaz, nora doa guzti hau?

I'll talk over this landing --

Lurreratzeaz hitz egingo dut --

I think I land in this one.

Uste dut hontan lurreratu nuela.

Well, I don't think anybody's going to go down to Walmart

Ongi da, ez dut uste inork Walmart-era joateko edo

or take the kids to school in any of this stuff for a while,

umeak eskolara eramateko erabiliko duenik horrelako zerbait.

but the team at Gravity are building some awesome technology

Baina Gravityko batzuk teknologia izugarria sortzen ari dira

that's going to make this look like child's play.

horrek, hau, haur-jolas bihurtuko du.

We're working on some things

Gauza batzuk lantzen gabiltza

that will seek to bring this unusual experience of flight

hegaldiaren esperientzi hau zabaltzeko

to a wider audience, beyond the events and displays we're doing.

publiko zabalagora hedatzeko, egiten ari garen saioez haratago.

We're even starting to look for pilots two and three,

Gainera bigarren eta hirugarren pilotuen bila galbitza,

if there's any volunteers.

boluntarioak baleude.

I've got this vision.

Irudimen hau dut.

It sounds audacious, but let's just stick it out there,

Bitxia irudi daiteke, baina esan dezagun,

that one day maybe we can rise up above a beach,

egunen batean, agian hondartza gainean

fly up and down the coastline of it, rise up a bit higher,

hegan egin genezakeela, kostaldean gora eta behera,

with some of the safety kit we're working on to make this achievable.

segurtasun kitarekin, hau posible egiten saiatzen ari gara.

Then over the horizon comes a Hercules with the ramp down.

Ondoren, zerumugatik Herkules bat dator jaisten.

As it comes past, you start picking up speed

Aurrera doan heinean, abiadura hartzen zoaz

and see if we can intercept --

eta ikusi ea harrapa dezakegun

from the rear, not the front, that would be a mistake --

atzetik, ez aurretik, hori akats bat litzateke --

and then try and land in the back.

eta gero berriro lurreratu.

And as I say, that's a little way off at the moment.

Esan dudan bezala, nahiko lan dago oraindik egiteko.

But this is also, if I take a big step back from this,

Baina era berean, atzerapauso bat ematen badugu,

this is also a very personal journey for me.

hau oso bidaia pertsonala ere bada niretzat.

Back to that lovely photo,

Argazki eder horretara itzuliz, edo irudiaren marrazkira.

or photo in a picture.

Sadly, my father took his own life when I was 15,

Zoritxarrez, nire aitak bere buruaz beste egin zuen 15 nituenean

and left an awful lot of unfulfilled ambition.

bete gabeko anbizio asko utzirik.

He was a wonderful inventor,

Izugarrizko asmatzailea zen, kreatzaile inkorformista.

a maverick creator.

And I'd just like to think, if it was possible,

Eta pentsatu nahiko nuke, posible izango balitz,

if he was looking down,

Hona begira balego,

he would be --

Bera egongo litzake --

he'd certainly be smiling at some of the things we've done here,

ziur aski barrez egongo litzateke egin ditugun gauzak direla eta.

I think.

Uste dut.

So, it's a tribute to him.

Hortaz, bere omenean da.

Thank you very much.

Mila esker.

(Applause)

(Txaloak)

(Voice-over) Richard Browning: I'm probably more nervous

(offeko ahotsa) Richard Browning: Ziurrenik urduriago nago

about doing the demo after this.

honen ondoren demoa egiteaz.

I've got a lot of things to get done today.

Gauza asko ditut gaur egiteko.

Worst-case scenario, we don't get a clean start.

Egoera okerrenean, ez dugu hasiera garbi bat.

Or we get an unplanned failure while I'm actually flying around.

Edo aurreikusi gabeko arazo bat, hegan nabilen bitartean.

This is why we keep it very low,

Horregatik mantentzen dugu baxu.

so the worst is I just look like an idiot and fall on my rear, as I said.

Okerrena da lelo itxura izango dudala eta bizkarrez erori, esan bezala.

So you can all enjoy that if that happens.

Hortaz goza dezakezue gertatuko balitz.

(Music)

(Musika)

(Jet engine accelerates)

(Motorra azkartzen da)

(Cheers)

(Txaloak)