Richard Browning is a Real-life Iron Man - with His Own Flying Suit | WIRED

One day in early summer last year, Richard Browning headed to his farmyard in the English countryside. He attached a kerosene-fuelled micro gas turbine – effectively a small version of a plane engine – to each of his arms and legs. Then he carefully pressed the throttle trigger in his right hand. For months, Browning had been working on this secret project. Now the moment of truth had arrived. In the modest surroundings of the UK countryside, "UK's Iron Man" took to the sky. Sort of.

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Richard Browning is a Real-life Iron Man - with His Own Flying Suit | WIRED

[TheFishfinderman]

My dad is the real Ironman. He Iron's our clothes everyday!

[toucheguy]

Richard Browning is a real genius! His invention means a total revolutionary way to think 'transport', allowing us to finally delete 'traffic jams' from our lives. I admire his talent and hope he will find all necessary support to go further in his researches so that a light and practical model will be available just for anyone. He is on the way to make it come true.

[centrefordevelopmentalneur]

Micro gas turbines tested in a farm yard. It looks like the fan is going to hit the shit.

[myronlewis]

My advice to you Richard browning is that maybe try and attract a exoskeleton system and make the exoskeleton 2 times your size so in that way your jet turbines could go underneath your feet adding way more balance and support

[luiscampos]

you need a stablelizer for those key engines. in other words put the 6 in your back, and propellers in back arms and back legs to manoevour that suit. then you can take off. cubli technology can help with the balancing

[RadagonTheRed]

Remember that scene from Iron Man 2 ... where Tony is showing the senate the footage of all the different nations' attempts at making suits and how badly they fail? Yeah.

[maverickknation]

What tools did he use to forward slash build these turbines, what process did he implement??

[benjaminbrown]

Dear Mr Browning,
In this video, you appear to lack any AI driven autonomic re-enforced mechanic structural and trajectory controls yet. Please see Tensor Flow. P.S. I look forward to seeing much more from you

[ringohendrix]

Squidward doesn't get how this could possible be fun to use.

[amin.stagram]

did any one figure the name of the music used in this video ?

[Xenos_Zeta]

Where can I find more information on this?

[johnkim]

I needs a parachute just in case it fails

[gasturbine]

O.M.G. I thought I'd seen it all! :-)

[mayankdehariya]

yes bro. it's better but not enough. slowly but we are going to make an ironman. Not only the suit but also should work in software.

[olivierlesage]

Job security...
for hospitals, doctors and health care personnel...

[robertrosenthal]

Looks cool.
Did you use some kind of off the shelf engine, or is it a completely new design of engine, it seems to have more thrust to weight than I've seen others talking about. (I'm no where near an expert in that area, nor even a hobbyist, just interested.)
Also I'd expect it would pump out a lot of heat, can you tell us how you isolate the pilot from that?
Last question (for tonight at least), can you tell us what approximate flight time running these days? (based on carried fuel, not just the longest you've been in the air.)
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As a side note, everyone has seen the old jetpacks/rocketpacks, and they work, but their flight time is horrible! Especially now that they're over 60 years old. The scenes you see in the movies are usually several different flights spliced together to look like one. Just watch how often they change the camera position. ;)
(I hope you're doing a lot better than that old tech, but if not, it's nothing to be ashamed of, look at all the money and research Bell Labs spent on theirs. You're totally ahead of the game.)

[LandersWorkshop]

According to the article it has 12 minutes of flight time. Have a parachute and it's probably about 10 minutes. Not bad.

[jogindersingh]

cn i knkw the videos link in which u made this
🙄🙄🙄

[buddyboyx]

Once you topple to face downward, you are finished. I cannot conceive of a way to recover.