@ Mez7:
- Lets see...
Power Plant - Standard Batteries, since I dont have a Nuclear Arc Reactor Device...
With current battery technology, you will not get enough electrical power to run an actual powered-armor suit for any appreciable time - consider that a 2-pound laptop battery contains enough electrical power to run a couple of 100W light bulbs for a few hours. This is nowhere NEAR the level of electrical power you'll need to power an honest-to-God powered-armor suit.
Yeah, you could carry a few hundred pounds of batteries - but then you have to MOVE them, as well as the rest of the suit. The energy density just isn't there yet. That's one of the stumbling blocks keeping true electric cars off the road so far. We'll lick it eventually - but it'll probably be a while.
Fuel - Standard Unleaded Gasoline, Mabey some alcohol if I can ferment it without getting arrested.
No. PLEASE no. DEAR GOD please no. Do *NOT* set yourself on fire!!!
And that *IS* what you're proposing here. You're not going to use gasoline to propel an Iron Man-style suit in controlled flight. Note that the jet packs currently available for a couple hundred thousand dollars a pop use extremely-high-pressure gas or high-purity hydrogen peroxide (rather than flaming fuel) for a whopping 30 seconds' flight time - you put ignited gasoline anywhere NEAR your body and you're going to KILL yourself.
You're talking about building a FLAMETHROWER, not a jet-pack.
And you'll burn down your launch site, too.
Weight of suit + Me - 250lbs (guess)
How much does one of your foot-cages weigh? That's a small PART of your substructure - multiply that times, oh, twenty or more for just the frame, then there's layered steel plate (how thick were you thinking?), actuators and connectors, power line, heavy batteries, liquid fuel (gasoline is on the order of 6 pounds per gallon - and one gallon will roll the average car 20-30 miles, on the ground where it doesn't have to fight gravity. How many gallons will you need to keep your suit in the air?), computing equipment (and we won't even get into where THAT's going to go or where you're going to get it)...
Your suit alone will exceed 250 pounds. By quite a bit. And it won't do what you want. Sorry.
Propulsion - Modified Custom turbine encased inside the backpack, combustion chambers in the boots.
You intend to route flaming gasoline down the entire length of your body? Either the combustion takes place in the turbine, in which case you'd do better to channel the exhaust out from the backpack rather than trying to run it down your body, or the propulsion units need to be in your boots, in which case you need still more technology which does not exist yet (supersmall jets capable of lifting hundreds of pounds of mass into the air without generating enough heat to cook your feet and calves like turkey drumsticks).
I reiterate - PLEASE do not set yourself on fire by trying this!
Flight Time - Hopefully 1/2 hour or more at idle speed.
How much fuel were you planning on carrying, at 6 pounds per gallon? Where is that going to be located? Remember, your jets need to be able to lift all the fuel, too.
Flight Stabilizers - Mabey some control surfaces just like Tony's suit, mabey nothing.
Without them, assuming you build thrusters rather than flamethrowers, you will be basically uncontrolled, assuming you get into the air. With them, you need to control and operate them - which will be, I suspect, orders of magnitude harder than you seem to think will be the case.
( I'll cross these bridges when I get to them, that's why I havent answered these questions yet )
Look, I admire your enthusiasm, and your metalworking skill seems to be up to the task of building the metal shell, a steel Iron Man COSTUME - which is a HELL of an accomplishment, should you carry through and do it. I'd LOVE to see it. What you're posting here, however, leads me to believe that you have extraordinarily-unrealistic ideas about what you're going to be able to do, and how you're going to be able to do it, and that you intend to try and do things that multi-million-dollar R&D projects can't do in your garage, in a manner that's going to severely injure or kill you. I personally don't want to hear about that happening. Call me a naysayer all you like, but there's a reason nothing even CLOSE to what you're describing exists in the real world yet. The technology isn't THERE yet, not even for major corporations and governments. You're not going to build a real Iron Man suit in your garage when they can't build them in multi-million-dollar workshop/labs yet.
ETA: This is what's going through my head -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/4575291.stm
