Awesome. I love parrotlets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPRp0VaQ0s
now, if they add some kind of smoke [non-damaging to birds of course] to visualize airflow or some modernized version using some safe laser of something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_photography
Similar flight studies have been done in flies:
Visually mediated motor planning in the escape response of Drosophila. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208...
It's interesting how much we can learn from the way natural selection has designed things.
This reminds me of the kid who built a solar tree which produced much more energy than normal 'linear' solar panels[0].
[0] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/boy-genius-13-year-ol...