Residents of the quiet town of Salisbury, in the south of England, had no clue until last week
that their neighbor, a 38-year-old oil trader named Richard Browning, is a real-life Iron Man in the making.
The amateur inventor had been secretly building a jet engine-powered exoskeleton suit, and he recently unveiled how the futuristic ensemble enables him to hover in the air like a superhero.
Despite the noisiness of the technology, which consists of three sets of miniature jet engines attached to the arms and the back, Browning managed to keep the work completely under wraps. For 18 months, he had been experimenting in his garage, trying to figure out the optimal number and position of the jet engines to allow him to fly with a minimal amount of equipment. [Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects] https://www.livescience.com/58549-jet-engine-powered-flying-exosuit.html
