[Jetfire just nods placidly, optics glowing brightly. The claws-out reaction hardly fazes him.]

How about this, attempt to look for a helmet, otherwise the materials needed to make one? Metal would be too heavy, and since we don't have other materials easily available or produced finding them will be necessary anyway.

[Even if he had the raw materials to make what was needed, they didn't have a lot of... equipment.]