A flying cat? Dutch artist turns dead feline into a helicopter

cat turned into a remote-control flying helicopter may be the strangest yet.

The cat helicopter was conceived by Dutch artist Bart Jansen, and debuted for the public at the KunstRai ArtFair in Amsterdam that ended on Sunday. Jansen calls his creation the Orvillecopter and describes it as "half-cat, half-machine."

The Orvillecopter is exactly what it looks like: A taxidermied cat with a plastic propeller attached to each paw. No animals were harmed for this project. The cat, who was conveniently named Orville, belonged to Jansen and died after he was hit by a car.

"After that he received his wings posthumously," the artist writes in a description of a YouTube video showing the Orvillecopter's first flight.

The artist says he did observe a period of mourning before turning his dead cat into a flying machine, but he clearly thinks he's done Orville a favor by giving him flight after death.

"Now he is flying with the birds," he writes. "The greatest goal a cat could ever reach!"





i love this

I hope nobody tries to turn me into a helicopter when I die.

how is it gory wtf

bludger wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 8:39pm:


puddy tat?

at work today a woman told me that she talks to her cats and tells them her problems, and the cats listen. “you should be locked up,” i thought.
if you meet someone who tells you that her best friends are cats, the correct response is to look at your watch and say, “is that the time? taxi!!!” that is what i would do, if I met such a person in my free time. but as i was at work there was no escape.

The Orvillecopter would be great chasing one of these:

Chard wrote on Jun 17^th, 2012 at 8:58pm:


Hahahahhahahahaha

SOB