British Guy builds Iron Man-like flight suit

[WizardofNos]

British entrepreneur invents, builds and files patent for Iron Man-like flight suit.

There has been attempts, this one isn't that bad so far!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ05iAuIAlc
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I hope it's not a repost!

[The Artist]

Surely it would be better if he took the ones off his arms and fabricated a small frame to hold and move them. Flying for any length of time would be extremely tiring on the arms.

[doggone]

[doggone]

[Sload]

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[The Artist]

[grr666]

It's not rocket science...
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[duhawkz]

Take note adam, thats how you build a working prototype/poc
I notice wanna be icarus, isn't taking money for an unfinished, not working piece of vapourware

#notagrownman
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[Baggyman]

What day is it today guys?


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[Rogerborg]

[M.C]

I don't know what to believe anymore

[WizardofNos]

A few people think it is an April Fool so they posted this.
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Pinned by Gravity Industries
Gravity Industries3 hours ago (edited)
We almost love that people think this is a stunt! It'll make the next few weeks all the more sweet as people realise the innovation at play here.

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I hope it's not a repost!

[Baggyman]

[dydey90]

[Sload]

It looks pretty cool, needs an exo suit to give stability and support the load, oo, let's have some hydraulics too, oh wait Too much massssssssy
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[Going]

[Rogerborg]

[Rogerborg]

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[skatefreak]

I would suggest fuel would be a minor problem here because there's very little chance of this actually getting very far.

The spool up time on these is far to long to give any kind of controlled flight.

Imagine having a 4-10 second delay when you open the throttle on your bike as the engine spools up another 20,000-50,000 rpm (around 100,000-120,000 is usually full chat)?
Now imagine that whilst trying to fly in 3 dimensions coupled with the radical instability of having the thrust strapped to your arms/legs? Very unforgiving I'd have thought and would take weeks/months to master (as has been demonstrated by this chap spending months trying to achieve stable flight).

On fuel, I've seen single turbines put a dent in a 25 litre drum of fuel in minutes whilst playing at mid-high throttle (and that was just putting out 25-30 lb of thrust) multiply that my 6? .

Nice idea, I hope their having fun but that they havn't deluded themselves they will have a marketable 'product' apposed to a 'novelty' item because they won't get far until they re-design the conventional gas turbine to overcome these limitations... Good luck with that

[pompousporcup...]

i am genuinely impressed I wonder how long the russians will take to make the same thing

[Rogerborg]

[skatefreak]

It most certainly looks like awesome fun and very impressive (considering 50-60lb thrust pushing on each arm could some quite some mischief if it twisted the wrong way).

The real question is... Brave or stupid? Not sure I'd give it a bash given the opportunity...

[Pjay]

Not an April Fools, confirmed.
The inventor was on Talk sport yesterday, talking about this and how development is coming along.
He also said that its pricepoint at the moment, if someone wanted to order it is around $250,000. He was English, talking on a UK radio show, so I have no idea why he priced it in Dollars.

[supZ]

[Baggyman]