
Professor Eric Feron and his aero/astro-LIDS research team celebrated the 100th anniversary of EECS and powered flight Sunday by taking their robotic helicopter out for a 20-minute spin over the Stata Center. The X-Cell 60 model rotor aircraft is 1.5 meters long and weighs 18 pounds. Photo / MARTIN JONIKAS
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 21, 2003.