Team building a better wheelchair for Paralympic athletes
By Amy F. Reiter
Saturday September 6, 2008
Robin Scholz /The News-Gazette
Greg Busch with the model of a competitive wheelchair and a rider that was used during aerodynamic testing at the wind tunnel at the Aerodynamics Research Lab on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana on Friday.
URBANA – Inside a nondescript building in the middle of a parking lot, scientists are using a giant wind tunnel to figure out how to make disabled athletes move faster – starting with several of the University of Illinois athletes competing at the Beijing Paralympic Games starting today.
When those athletes start competing, Greg Busch will be watching.
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