Granted, he had a team assisting him, but Savage has built an Iron Man suit out of 3-D printed titanium with working jet engines. Adam didn’t feel secure enough to fly in the suit himself, but the jetpack’s inventor Robert Browning did, and achieved flight at a height of 15 feet above the ground. This was the first episode of Savage’s new show, Savage Builds, and it looks pretty impressive. Here’s a short YouTube clip.
I watched the video just to learn how the heck they were 3d printing titanium. I was expecting, at best, that it’d be lost-wax casting.
Holy $%!#, it’s SLM!‽? They can do that with titanium now!?
Er, in case it’s not clear, I think that selective laser melting is really cool. Um, I mean, hot. Really, really hot, at titanium’s melting point.
Would’ve been really funny to have a robot spray him with a fire extinguisher when he landed.
D’oh! The jetpack’s inventor is Richard Browning, not Robert. :smack:
Call me when he blows it up.
I heard rodent infestation is a major problem in fabrication facilities. How did he solve the micing problem?
If he’s nothing without that suit, he shouldn’t have it!