No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you—you really did just see a man in a jetpack flying around Dubai’s Museum of the Future.
He’s touched down in Dubai’s Downtown, near Ain Dubai on Bluewaters Island, as well as outside the museum itself on Sheikh Zayed Road. He also visited a school in Dubai.
The real-life Iron Man is Richard Browning of Gravity Industries, who has been spending the day delivering tickets to Dubai’s Museum of the Future, set to finally be inaugurated tomorrow, February 22, 2022.
The journey was shared on social media as well.
Browning is credited with creating the world’s first patented jet suit, ad himself is the chief test pilot and founder of Gravity Industries.
It’s powered by five gas turbines, and can reach nearly 4000 meters in the air.
Browning was a Royal Marines reservist for six years back in his home of England, and was trading oil before he started testing his jet pack back in 2016
Prior to inventing the ‘gravity-defying jet suite’, Browning was a Royal Marines reservist for six years.
Also, a former oil trader Browning started to test the nascent versions of the jet suit’s engine in 2016. He’s already taken around people such as Richard Branson of Virgin and Tim Draper of Tesla, and his jet suit was named one of the best inventions of 2018 and the jet pack got a Guinness World Record in 2019—reaching an insane 135 km/h.
Museum of the Future: UFOs and more
It’s been a busy lead up to the launch. Social media was abuzz Friday night after a video began circulating of a UFO landed on the stunning downtown museum, already being called the world’s most beautiful building.
Dubai Media Office released the footage, that caused many to speculate over whether it was real. After all, anything is possible in Dubai–though it’s likely CGI.
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The video shows the upper segment of the building opening up with a UFO spacecraft landing safely inside on some sort of pad.
In the video, traffic continues on normally down Sheikh Zayed Road as the UFO descends.
Many have speculated over what the UFO ship might be, but no one yet has been able to identify it.
The video is being used as promotional material to promote the opening of Museum of the Future on February 22, 2022 (aka 2/22/22), meaning it’s likely computer generated imagery. Judge for yourself!
What is the Museum of the Future?
So, if not aliens, what’s inside the museum, anyways? To answer it simply, it’s the year 2071. Yep—the museum is set 100 years after the founding of the UAE, showing scenarios of what the future could be like, covering resource development, bioengineering, futuristic ecosystems, as well as the future of health, wellness and even spirituality.
There are also space-themed exhibitions, including New Moon, which shows how the moon may be used as a source of renewable energy in the future.
Tickets will be AED 145, and are already available to book here. If you’re bringing anyone under the age of 3, or you are a person of determination or an Emirati over the age of 60, great news, as tickets are free.