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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 can't drive it with my hands. and because it's 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, level four, all the way down to level zero. concerns about the new variant s have slowed the move to...

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: he's 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 the statue of liberty flight, he told the pilot. >> fly slow and careful and not too high. >> i didn...

>> 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 body to steer. though he took one hand off the controls for a second. >> i soluted lady liberty on on...

This is truly one of miami's most popular tourist destination and honestly, it's one of mine. oh, my gosh. do i look like that when i'm angry? >> i love him. an iconic tourist destination gets a visitor unlike any other. here's cnn's jean moos. >> reporter: is it a bird? is it a plane? it's a man in the jetpack flying around the statue of liberty. >> it's 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 test pilot. yes, he and his chief designer had to get all kinds of approvals to pull this off. >...

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 i'm glad about that. that was the biggest thing when i first got hurt, because i wasn't 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. i think it was two days after i got my license, i went and got my truck. my step mom took me to ...