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First british car to reach i million sales. so what we have done is stuck some portable hand controls on the car so i cant drive it with my hands. and because its a van and there is plenty of room in there, wejust there is plenty of room in there, we just stuck my wheelchair in the back and away we go, on our uk road tourfor the programme. each country in the programme. each country in the uk has decided on its own timetable out of lockdown. in scotland, areas are graded from the most severe, le...

About five minutes. the pilot uses hand controls and his body to steer. he took one hand off the controls for a second. >> i saluted lady liberty. on one of the pass i stopped and turned around and gave her a salu salute. >> reporter: hes been hooked on jet packs since he first saw james bond take off in one in thunder ball. for ten years, he and the designer have worked together. tyler helped design the rocket belt that sent up a man for less than 30 seconds at the 1984 to limb picks. the for t...

>> reporter: is it a bird, plane, a man in a jet pack flying around the statute of liberty. >> it was awesome. dream come true. i was having a blast. >> reporter: the actual blast off from a boat was fairly gentle, the founder of jet pack aviation david is the test pilot and yes, he and his chief designer had to get all kinds of approvals to pull this off. >> the faa asked what is it? is it? a jet? is that? >> reporter: the flight lasted about five minutes, the pilot uses hand controls and his b...

This is truly one of miamis most popular tourist destination and honestly, its one of mine. oh, my gosh. do i look like that when im angry? >> i love him. an iconic tourist destination gets a visitor unlike any other. heres cnns jean moos. >> reporter: is it a bird? is it a plane? its a man in the jetpack flying around the statue of liberty. >> its a dream come true. i was having a blast. >> reporter: the actual blastoff from a boat was fairly gentle. the founder of jetpack aviation is the tes...

Because you just want to stay down there. >> this is how i get down the hill. >> that first couple months, people would stare and stuff. it took a while to be able to want to go out and do stuff. not so much anymore and im glad about that. that was the biggest thing when i first got hurt, because i wasnt able to drive. i was just really tired of having to have somebody chauffeur me around. they had to teach me how to drive again basically with hand controls. that was starting of my turning point...

Cornfield near an airport. arizona. a former professional motocross athlete taking first place in his division at iron man, arizona. thats despite a serious crash 8 years ago that paralyzed him from the chest down. >> ricky james is on the water. this is the second full length iron man of the year. he also won several truck races using hand controls to drive. some of the best video gamers in the world facing off in the donkey kong championships in november.led on 16 machines. the winner took hom...

America was going to go to war and we needed new programs and services to take care of our newest generation of heros. to seat freedom tower going up now t speaks to american resilient. >> you are almost 10 years into your organization. war on terror maybe going on now for 11 to 12 years. what -- is the need now? what are you seeing in the soldiers who are returning today. maybe versus what you saw in that first wave of soldiers who are returning? biggest thing now is the reintegration. reintegr...

On a level playing field. my visit came during testing ahead of the latest round of the britcar championship. aaron morgan is one of team brits two drivers in the endurance event, driving an aston martin gtii. aaron became a wheelchair user in 2006 following a motocross accident. the disabled drivers on the team use control systems developed by engineers in—house. these are completely sort of bespoke, completely developed from the ground up by team brit. they and the other engineers within the...

Is autistic and the car remains drivable by him in the usual way as the adaptations coexist alongside the regular controls. hand controls per se arent new — i use them to drive my car — but these are quite different to what you might find on a road car as theyre tuned for a racing environment. but a racing team is more than just the drivers and building systems like this into already finely tuned machines isnt a straightforward process. and so, you obviously work with different iterations of...