I found turning 50 a sobering experience.

What [did] I want my funeral to be like? First thing is that my final trip has got to be in a tank.

The project chugged along steadily mostly between important jobs; better not to work myself to death, especially before the project is finished. Then suddenly I had a phone call telling me an older tank mad instructor was very ill in hospital.

I visited him that night and things looked so bad on return I walked straight in to the workshops and carried on till the early hours and up early the next morning cutting away.

Everything just came together. I found a very clean turret and the sand blaster finished it the very same day. An elusive polish friend who owed me money came out of the woodwork asking if he could work it off, and a clever Jimbo started sorting an electrical birds nest.

This guy isn’t taking the prospect of dying lying down. Well, okay, he’s still going to be lying down, but you get what I mean.

Via Tanks Alot.

A Dutch student has revealed a prototype “ambulance drone”, a flying defibrillator able to reach heart attack victims within precious life-saving minutes.

Developed by engineering graduate Alec Momont, it can fly at speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour (60 miles per hour). Painted in emergency services yellow and driven by six propellers, the drone can carry a four kilogram load – in this case a defibrillator.

The drone tracks emergency mobile calls and uses the GPS to navigate. Once at the scene, an operator can watch, talk and instruct those helping the victim by using an on-board camera connected to a control room via a livestream webcam.

A nice spin on drone technology.

Via Tech Plus.