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Iron-man is no longer a science fiction! Salisbury is a quiet town in the south of England. Salisbury residents were surprised by their neighbor, Richard Browning, a 38 year old oil trader, flying close to the earth surface using jet engine. Browning had been privately developing an exoskeleton suit. This jet engine- powered suit enables him to flutter in the air like superheroes. In spite of the noisiness of the innovation, which is composed of three arrangements of little stream motors appended to the arms and the back, Browning figured out how to control the work totally under wraps. For year and a half, he had been testing in his carport, attempting to make sense of the ideal number and position of the jet motors to allow him to hover with a minimum amount of equipment. "The philosophy behind all this was: Could we reimagine how a really raw form of human flight would work?" Browning said. "The human body is very good at being trained to do specific things, and it's a useful structure, and the human mind is a pretty amazing machine. So, we had this idea — rather than go and rely on aluminum structures to build the machine, rely on gyros and computers in order to achieve stability, why not rely on the human machine, keep it as raw and original as possible?" Mohamed Mohamed