But you don’t have to be a superhero to experience this kind of flight. If you have a set of carbon-fiber wings and four engines, you can fly like Yves Rossy, also known as “Jetman.”
Flying Like a Rocket
Iron Man doesn’t have wings. He doesn’t need them. Instead, his armored suit (which is most likely not made of iron) gives him augmented strength, some type of blaster fire from his hands, and most importantly—flight. Iron Man appears to fly using something like rockets located on his feet and hands.
I’m not exactly sure how his suit produces thrust, but it seems to work like most rockets do, in that mass—the exhaust—shoots
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