Rocket-powered paramedics: Air Ambulance service announces plans to use JETSUITS to find and treat stranded ramblers in the Lake District




  • Richard Browning invented the suit in part to inspire children to get more into science and engineering
  • He demonstrated the potential for the suit to be used by emergency services at an event in the Lake District
  • In a test flight he found a group of 'ramblers' playing the part of an injured group within eight minutes
  • This was a search operation that would have taken paramedics up to an hour if they were doing it on foot



Air Ambulance paramedics could be using rocket-powered suits to find and treat injured or stranded ramblers on mountains in the lake district as soon as next summer, after a successful test flight.
The flying suit, developed by inventor Richard Browning, was put through its paces at Langdale Pike where he flew over difficult terrain at heights of up to 20ft searching for a group of ramblers.
As part of a test run, it was able to reach the peak 3,117ft peak of Helvellyn mountain in under eight minutes - it would take a helicopter three times as long and a paramedic on foot would take at least an hour.




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