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British Jet Suit Inventor Breaks Three Track- inspired World Records
By Ben Hooper
May 25 (UPI) -
- The British inventor of a fly- ing jet suit broke three Guinness World Records at a speed event hosted by the record-keeping organization.
Guinness said it put Richard Browning's jet suit, which he previously used to set the world record for fastest speed in a body- controlled, jet- engine-powered suit, to the test with a "jet suit triathlon" at the Anker Speed Challenge event at the Southampton
Athletics Center in England.
Browning's first event involved setting a record for fastest 100 meter dash in a body-controlled, jet-engine-pow- ered suit, finishing in 7.69 seconds.
He unofficially beat Usain Bolt's analog 100 meter time of 9.58 sec- onds.
Browning next took on the record for fastest 400 meter hurdles in a body-controlled, jet-engine-pow-
ered suit, which required him to clear each hurdle in a definite up- and-down motion. He finished with a time of 42.06 sec- onds -- beating the unassisted human version of the record, which stands at 46.87
seconds.
The final chal- lenge was inspired by the pole vaulting event: fastest time to clear an elevated crossbar in a body-con- trolled, jet-engine- powered suit. The
bar was set at 20.3 feet -- .39 inches higher than the world record for highest pole vault. Browning set the record with a time of 13.09 seconds.
"A couple of years ago we set the speed record in this equipment, and in fact that was beating a record we'd set with Guinness World Records a few years before then. Speed is a core ingredient of what we do here, and it's a pleas- ure to come along and set more records," Browning told Guinness.
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