Originally Posted by
PANews
Well if you manage to put such a device in service ..... the drone that autonomously grabs the casualty in a device like those fluffy toy slot machines ... let me know and I will self isolate forever.... my experience of those manually guided grab slot machine is that they do not work! So there you are with your broken leg on the hillside - after your 500 foot fall - when without a by your leave this 'thing' grabs you by the scruff of the neck and drags you down the remaining 3,000 feet!
Bring it on!
Well, having done my time as an SAR pilot and police, where we pre-dated all but one air ambulance and occasionally carried casualties off the hills and from RTAs etc, of course I was very much joking. As well as the flying claw dropping the odd casualty from its uncertain grasp, I can imagine an unwilling and struggling sheep inadvertently finding itself delivered to A & E...
