Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flown it at TED

Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by idiot74 on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:48AM (#14218637)

> He was inspired by his father, an aeronautical engineer and inventor, who killed himself when Mr Browning was a teenager.

Was this really necessary? Imagine the reaction of the guy: "Oh cool, there's a bbc article on me.. oh... :(".

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by weego on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:03AM (#14218699)

I don't think it's a spoiler for him at this point in life.

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by idiot74 on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:23AM (#14219578)

Yeah but it can be unpleasant when other people casually bring up tragedies about your life randomly when the context isn't quite right.

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:36AM (#14219212)

The phrase "killed himself" seems like a really odd choice. I assumed the author meant in some kind of aeronautical accident, but perhaps it's just a really crass way of saying "committed suicide".

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by samlittlewood on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:48AM (#14219308)

As a brit, that reads ok - to me, it does not imply intention. "Fred killed himself whilst overtaking a lorry on the A30" would not imply suicide (but possibly poor judgement).

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by ralfd on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:07AM (#14218716)

I also found this sentence bizarre. It doesn't add any important information to the reader and makes it sound he was inspired by the suicide.

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by knorker on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:36AM (#14218871)

Yeah. It sounds like his father killed himself, so now this guy is going to do it too, albeit in a more spectacular way.

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Re:Inventor who built an Iron Man-style flight suit has flow... by dominotw on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:21AM (#14218786)

Perhaps something to do with Howard Stark's tragic death when tony was young?

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