Mariam Petrosyan's "The Gray House." It is multi-POV, but the main character and two other important ones are in wheelchairs.
(disclosure: I translated it)

or it would have been anywhere on the scale from "long and expensive" to "requiring personal presence in the country for a prolonged period" to "impossible"

in October 1958 an MIT frat pledge named Oliver R. Smoot has been repeatedly laid down head-to-toe to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge, thus establishing a non-standard unit of length, a smoot (~5'7")

Mr. Smoot went on to become head of ANSI and ISO, the world's preeminent standards bodies

we had a poseidon do perfect circles for 3 hours over the city 2 days ago
(out of patuxet river naval air station)

(son of mario monje, also mario, was my classmate in high school)

And that is called doing the Ozzy,
And the people who do it all swear
That once you are doing the Ozzy,
The mighty look on and despair.

looks like this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_... is the latest (not sure if the only)

but that was war

the groove is just relentless