Iron man suit is it possible to make

But imagine donning a hunk of metal, then walking out in front of the bus. The same goes for Tony Stark. Unless he worked some kind of advanced, shock-absorbing material into the suit that he never talks about, he should have far more broken bones and concussions than they ever show on the screens. And some of those injuries would certainly be fatal, like when he crashes Mark 1 into the desert in the first Iron Man.

In the films, Iron Man is often depicted flying horizontally, with all of his rockets pointing right behind him especially during the first Iron Man when he was soaring in a straight line over the Middle East.

Because these types of scenes look so epic, we tend not to question them a trend many superhero movies rely on. All of his rocket power is pointing backward, with nothing pointing downwards. It's one thing when he's flying straight up into the sky — then, it makes sense that all his rockets would be pointing behind him. But in the films, when Tony is flying parallel to the ground, the need for horizontal lift seems to be pretty much ignored.

The pull of the seatbelt is a toned-down version of what Tony Stark should experience when he makes those hairpin turns in the sky in the Iron Man suit. It would be one thing if he was changing direction slowly, like a car on a roundabout, but the way Tony zips around is the equivalent of a speeding car coming to an almost instantaneous stop, then rocketing into reverse the next millisecond.

But if Iron Man had to turn on his blinkers and slowly arc to the left whenever he had to change directions in battle, the movies would move a lot slower— so artistic license does have its merits. The Iron Man suit would be impossible without the Arc Reactor. This nifty little piece of technology enables Tony to store massive amounts of energy in a cylinder the size of a hockey puck so that he can power the suit without having to lug around large containers of fuel.

So, how does the Arc Reactor work? The suit does all the work for him. A prototype design concept for the future development, that can also be seen in the background of the video above.

It has less overall strength, but still reportedly allows a soldier to carry a lb load, and it seems they have working units that are untethered. No word on how much of that lb load is currently being devoted to batteries though.

While nothing like an Arc Reactor, they expect a tethered version that would walk alongside a vehicle that carries a generator for the suit in 3 to 5 years. This would mostly be used to lift heavy materials in and out of vehicles for deployed soldiers. This could be very useful in allowing a very small team to rearm a vehicle or chopper in the field and to allow a small team to quickly unload bulk supplies and move on out of harms way.

In 6 to 10 years, they expect to be able to power the suit with its own internal power supply. The most limiting factor is battery technology, but it is getting better. We would have trouble with finding a power source and would need to recharge frequently. This is actually okay, because the Mark 1 had the exact same issue! The Mark 1 used "transistors" capacitors they meant possibly?

Unfortunately, it ran out of juice very often. Still, so far, so good. As I stated before, we can't have flight like the Iron Man from the movies, but the Mark 1 did not have that either. Supposedly, it was able to make short jumps or bursts of flight using "compressed air. The military designed a series of "jump jets" or "rocket belts" that used a highly concentrated mix of hydrogen peroxide and a catalyzing agent to create jets of high intensity steam that can allow a person to fly mostly vertically, which is just what the Mark 1 did!

Some other models used liquid nitrogen instead. Either one can be deadly if the fuel tank ruptures. Okay, so that is obviously very cool, but with a flight time measured in seconds and a world record of only ft this will not do for a superhero or a soldier.

In this video, we see the device climb to feet and deploy an emergency parachute at ft. This was actually flown by remote control in a chaser helicopter with a dummy, but that also shows how a navigation computer or assistant could help with flight in an emergency. The flight system is bulky, but it could be attached to the XOS and then used to enter hostile territory. After you arrive, you park it somewhere inconspicuous and then move in to deal out some Iron Man justice.

It's useful to break a force into a part that is pointing in the x-direction and a part in the y-direction. Also you can do the z-direction since real life is in 3D. Since x and y are perpendicular to each other, these components form the sides of a right triangle. That means that you can find the magnitude of these component forces by using that trigonometry stuff you learned in middle school.

The x- and y-components of the force depend on the jet engine thrust angle. Big deal, right? Yes, it's a big deal. Now you can see how to accelerate upward. You would need more vertical thrust. Without changing the jet engine throttle, you can just pull your arms in closer to your body.

Now there is a going to be a net upward force and you will accelerate. This arm movement also changes the thrust in the x-direction. It decreases it. But this is OK because you have two arms. The two jet engines on the arms both produce forces in the x-direction.

But these forces cancel since they are in opposite directions. So as long as you do the same thing with both arms, you are fine. No one just wants to hover. If you are Iron Man, you always want to actually fly and go places, right? To accelerate forward, you need to aim your jet hands towards the back—just a little bit. Depending on the angle of the back jet, you might even be able to point your arms straight down. Here is a diagram looking from the side of the flying Iron Man:. Notice that there is now a forward component of force from the back jet.

If the jet arms don't push back, this x-component of force for the back jet will be the only force pushing forward. The pilot will then accelerate. If there are no other forces, the flying human would continue to increase in speed in this position. Once at the desired speed you would put your arms back to the same position as hovering. Remember, you don't need a net force while moving at a constant speed—you just need it to accelerate. OK, if there is a significant air drag force acting on you, this will change your forces a little bit.