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Podcast: Fluid Power Forum
Episode: Only Fluid Power Can Keep Paraplegics Flying Helicopters
Description: This episode features Stewart McQuillan, inventor of the Aeroleg – a pneumatic system that allows a paraplegic to operate the foot controls on a helicopter. Stewart is one of the most interesting people we've spoken to on Fluid Power Forum – and he has one of the most innovative, yet simple and emotionally powerful, applications of fluid power technology. He was a helicopter and fighter pilot in Britain's Royal Air Force when he experienced a spinal cord injury that left him without the use of his legs. As an engineer and with an attitude of "I'll show them…...