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>	I am not a professional programmer, nor will I be if someone out
> there on the net sends me $50,000.  Nonetheless, a news item percolated
> to the front of my consciousness and I was interested in following
> it up.
>	A while ago (more than a month, I think) I saw a clip on NBC news
> about engineers/scientists at MIT (?) building a flying robot that
> worked through carefully controlled blasts of compressed air.
>	Is there an article in a journal that gives a "fuzzy" treatment
> of the design?  I am but a Junior at Va Tech majoring in Math and
> Physics with a minor in CS, so an article crammed full of circuit
> diagrams is useless.
> 					Thanks in advance,
>					Richard O'Connell
>					Va Tech
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