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How Adam Savage built a real Iron Man suit that flies

May 11, 2020
I swear if Tony Stark wasn't fictional and he was making an Iron Man

suit

right now, this is precisely how we would do it and this is the exact technology he used for years because I'm wearing a huge wet t-shirt that we're in here in California. in an airplane hangar and I'm learning to fly my friend Richard Browning the gravity of his company is the inventor of the Ironman jetpacks that he wears on his arms and back it's hot he's incredibly loud and it's absolutely magical to see him just bring his arms up and he stands up off the ground as if hanging from a rope.
how adam savage built a real iron man suit that flies
I'm literally less than an hour away from putting on a kit and starting lessons and how to do it myself and I'm like another McCandies kid. This is all part of a new show I'm doing for Science Channel right now and people saw me for 14 years on Mythbusters doing absurd things and trying things and trying things and this will sound very familiar to them. This whole episode started because I made an appearance at the Colorado School of Mines and said we have these big 3D printers that can print titanium and I said, "Yeah, if you want to print something weird, let us know." full Iron Man armor

suit

, he said he was going to launch a new program focused on extreme engineering and he wanted to 3D print an Iron Man suit out of titanium, to which of course I said yes, we immediately ended up partnering with iOS for 3D printing. company that prints in titanium to print a completely bulletproof flying suit of Iron Man's armor.
how adam savage built a real iron man suit that flies

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We have worked with their team to take files from Marvel Studios for Iron Man and turn them into buildable objects that we could then send to our partner in this because who manufactured it. For all the parts, one of the requirements they gave us was to make the parts as thin as possible because we are trying to minimize the weight. We use a laser beam to melt the metal powder. The metal powder is approximately 40 microns in diameter, that is, half that of a human. hair, we spread a layer of powder across the build platform, the laser scans and selectively melts this powder and then builds it up layer by layer based on the geometry and once done you remove the powder and there's your part we're on So far the cutting edge of printing technology and the armor and metallurgical qualities of titanium sounds like hyperbole, but I swear if Tony Stark wasn't fictional and making an Iron Man suit right now, this is precisely how we'd do it. . and this is the exact technology, even using Kapow, there are components made of titanium, there are components made of urethane and flexible parts, we also have fiberglass, we have some 3D printed parts and nylon.
how adam savage built a real iron man suit that flies
I think over 280 pieces for the entire suit, there are a couple of different pieces. There's a lot of mechanics going on, so here's the hinge, which I don't know if you can see, the hinge that floats a little bit, it'll tighten up once we're ready to put them on. Adam and then on the inside here we have this network that will actually come up and connect to this, it will snap into the back of Adam and they will connect to each other. These are urethane pom poms that have been. painted to match this is a fully articulated finger and all of these files we used were the original files or the corresponding brand.
how adam savage built a real iron man suit that flies
We've been using this as a model. This is the same version of the suit we are working with. looking at this is kind of the big picture of seeing where the rivets are placed and how the pieces fit together in the orientations. I'm Richard Browning. I'm founder and chief pilot of gravity tests and we build thousand horsepower jet suits. When Adam tries this for the first time, we'll do it. instigate the start with the suit and the next 90 seconds are 90 seconds that I don't think people will ever forget in their lives, you feel all these engines, the five engines around you go from zero and cold to sitting at about 30,000 rpm and at idle. and you can feel the sense of power, all we do from there is simply progress towards greater and greater degrees of power and eventually it will be enough that if he is in control, who should be able to vector it down and down enough? air down to get it off the ground and then it's just this whole intuitive sense and balance of control.
If you're reasonably light, reasonably strong, you've done some kind of sporting endeavor that involves spatial awareness, things like rock climbing or gymnastics. or maybe pilot a helicopter, all of those things seem aimed at allowing your brain to quickly learn this balance of control. I have a lot of circus training. I have a very good sense of balance. I learned to ride a unicycle on my own when I was fifteen. Hello. Ladies, but this is totally different, as you may have noticed when one of your last ones goes when you're about to take off, your feet tend to kick back and it's like a human instinct when you feel like you're going to fall. forward, you need to keep going and relax, so the moment that your people have literally will gently take off, well, God, that was the most fun I've ever had with a thousand horsepower in my entire life.
That was amazing with these four Jets and the one on my back. I was able to hover about 15 feet off the ground and actually directional eyes and aim a little bit and the last bit of just feeling the power that my arms blocked rising off the ground. absolutely incomparable. I've learned enough about using this device in the last few days to know that I shouldn't put on the Ironman armor and try to do this, but that's okay because we're prototyping a suit, not my ability to fly in the suit. . It does feel like wearing a huge wetsuit, but it's great.
I'm amazed at all the volunteer work which was a pretty epic little piece of flying there. I think if I do say so myself using all that weight and especially wearing the helmet and being able to I see virtually nothing with those eyepieces and thinking about it, I bend my knees a little bit when I land and I couldn't bend them. I just landed in a

real

ly quite painful way, it's a very strange curve that's on the shin part of the suit. I don't know why, I'm sure it looks very cinematic, but my shins don't have a banana curve.
I'm happy to say I've driven everything from an IndyCar to which I haven't. squeezes the clutch on his bony M, but I've never tried a device like this. The number of different things and threads and connections that came together to make this work, including my friendship with Richard, is like this perfect kismet.

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