You Can Now Buy A Real-Life ‘Iron Man’ Suit
by kevin_jackson, 8 years ago |
3 min read
Six turbine engines let you fly ‘several hundred miles per hour.’
Everyone has dreamt of flying. But one inventor decided to make this dream a reality by developing a high-tech suit that allows you to zip through the air like Iron Man. The inventor, Richard Browning, spent about ten months and $50,000 to create the suit, according to Engadget. The outfit features six turbine engines, two on each wrist and one on each calf. The exhilarating video below, which Red Bull filmed, shows the suit in its current form. (Red Bull helped finance the project.) Browning created a new company called Gravity to receive funding and (hopefully) sell the product. Early estimates peg the suit’s cost to consumers to be roughly $250,000. According to CNET, the suit is meant to fly “several hundreds of miles per hour,” but Browning hasn’t ever actually reached these speeds. In fact, there isn’t a single video of the suit lifting him more than a few feet off the ground.

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