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2. Aaron Fotheringham - Wikipedia

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   And they said: 'Here at Nitro Circus, we're not going to stop you doing it," Fotheringham later told James Renhard for Mpora. [4] On the tour Fotheringham performed on a fifty-foot ramp-to-ramp jump doing backflips, double backflip attempts and on February 9, 2011, in New Zealand, the world's first wheelchair frontflip.

3. Walking vehicle - Wikipedia

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   A quadruped walker, the General Electric Walking truck, on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum. A walking vehicle is a vehicle that moves on legs rather than wheels or tracks. Walking vehicles have been constructed with anywhere from one to more than eight legs.

4. Wheelchair - Wikipedia

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   Some walkers can be used as a wheelchair. These walkers have seat and foot plates, so an attendant can push while the patient is sitting on the walker. This is useful for a person who gets tired while walking with a walker, or has a limited walking range meaning the person can walk, but after a while, the person will collapse and fall to the ...

5. Lawnchair Larry flight - Wikipedia

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   On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. [2] The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), drifted from the point of liftoff in San Pedro, California , and entered controlled airspace ...

6. Fermi coordinates - Wikipedia

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   If itself is a geodesic, then Fermi–Walker's transport becomes the standard parallel transport and Fermi's coordinates become standard Riemannian coordinates adapted to . In this case, using these coordinates in a neighbourhood T {\displaystyle T} of γ {\displaystyle \gamma } , we have Γ b c a = 0 {\displaystyle \Gamma _{bc}^{a}=0} , all ...

7. Mobility aid - Wikipedia

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   A mobility aid is a device that helps individuals with mobility impairments to walk or improve their overall mobility. [1]These aids range from walking aids, which assist those with limited walking capabilities, to wheelchairs and mobility scooters, which are used for severe disabilities or longer distances that would typically be covered on foot.