Mark Drela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
drela@mit.edu
Office:
(617) 253-0067
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Mark Drela is the Terry J. Kohler Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He joined the MIT faculty in January 1986.
Drela participated extensively in the Chrysalis, Monarch and Daedalus human-powered aircraft projects at MIT. Daedalus set the ...
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Drela participated extensively in the Chrysalis, Monarch and Daedalus human-powered aircraft projects at MIT. Daedalus set the ...
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Bio/Research
Mark Drela is the Terry J. Kohler Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He joined the MIT faculty in January 1986.
Drela participated extensively in the Chrysalis, Monarch and Daedalus human-powered aircraft projects at MIT. Daedalus set the world record for distance(116 km) and duration (four hours) in 1988. He also was the advisor and pilot for the MIT Human-Powered Hydrofoil Project (1989-1993), which holds the current human-powered watercraft world speed record of 18.5 knots.
Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for numerous R&D projects in aircraft, turbomachinery, bicycles and America’s Cup sailboats. He has been active in free-flight and radio-control model aircraft since childhood. Drela obtained his SB (1982), SM (1983) and PhD (1985) from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Drela participated extensively in the Chrysalis, Monarch and Daedalus human-powered aircraft projects at MIT. Daedalus set the world record for distance(116 km) and duration (four hours) in 1988. He also was the advisor and pilot for the MIT Human-Powered Hydrofoil Project (1989-1993), which holds the current human-powered watercraft world speed record of 18.5 knots.
Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for numerous R&D projects in aircraft, turbomachinery, bicycles and America’s Cup sailboats. He has been active in free-flight and radio-control model aircraft since childhood. Drela obtained his SB (1982), SM (1983) and PhD (1985) from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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