This is how a flying jetpack is used in a rescue mission

A video from Gravity Industries shows how useful the use of jetpaks would be when rescuing people in extreme conditions. In this case they test it with a high mountain rescue.

In addition to military applications, Gravity Industries believes that flying suits – the jet packs of a lifetime – have potential for search and rescue missions over difficult terrain.

And to prove it, what better way than to record a video of a simulated rescue in the mountain that was part of a military mission in the mountain organized by NATO.

With five gas turbine engines generating 1,050 hp and 144 kg of thrust, the Jet Suit from Gravity Industries has a range of 5 km that can be traveled in between 1 and 3 minutes (although if we go slow it can reach four minutes, they explain).

These are serious limitations, But the advantages of the suit are its speed of more than 80 km / h and its ability to lift a pilot vertically to heights of 3,658 m and land in a confined space. Which makes it an ideal transport in mountainous environments with difficult access.

And that is precisely what the flight carried out at the end of last year in Slovenia in the framework of a war rescue exercise in the mountains organized by NATO was trying to demonstrate.

Gravity Industries founder and chief test pilot Richard Browning donned the jetpackt and delivered blood plasma to a wounded soldier who had been rescued from a gorge in the Slovenian mountains as part of the exercise.

Although Browning piloted the suit along the trail to minimize the risk of the exercise, the suit is obviously equipped to traverse any terrain, something that can be beneficial for emergency responders in hard-to-reach places.

Beyond how spectacular it remains, it is clear that it is easier and more practical to send a drone with supplies than to send someone riding in a jet pack, but without a doubt the propelled backpack is more spectacular.