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NOT Built in a Cave With a Box of Scraps...

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Fact follows fiction:

Actual working Iron Man suit. Yes, it really flies.
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Alright, time to start assembling the Avengers. Maybe they can help stop the Hydra agents in the White House.

But seriously, that's all kinds of awesome.
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It'll be cool when this this becomes a less experimental technology and used for say, flying cars someday.
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Too loud, too fuel inefficient, and too many will not be willing to undergo the training necessary to use it safely.

But yeah, I can dream...
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So by iron man suit we mean, existing hover pack with an iron man themed cover? lol.

It is very cool though.
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Impressive; I've seen footage of the development of the jet pack, and it's an incredibly neat gadget.

And yes, it is a jet pack, those are tiny jet turbine engines on the hand-held bits. Flight time is IIRC several minutes, a lot better than the 40 seconds of the peroxide rocket on the version everyone knows about, that was used in a James Bond film and as a stunt at the opening of the LA Olympics.
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