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Artist turns his dead cat into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
2012-06-05
Hopefully I filed this in the right place.
Many animal lovers find it hard to part with their pets when they die.

So when cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, was run over by a car, his artist owner decided to turn him into a permanent piece of artwork as the ultimate tribute by transforming him into a flying helicopter.
That's not weird, is it?
Dutch artist Bart Jansen first stuffed Orville before teaming up with radio control helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman to build a specially-designed flying mechanism to attach to the cat.

The end result, named the Orvillecopter, is now on show at the Kunstrai art festival in Amsterdam where visitors can watch Orville flying for themselves.

Jansen said the Orvillecopter is 'half cat, half machine', and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his cat Orville.
Hmm, I wonder how it would go over with the Taliban.
Jansen, part of the art cooperative Generaal Pardon, said: 'After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously.'

He added that Orville will soon be 'flying with the birds' stating: 'Oh how he loved birds. He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight.'
Pics at the link. Go ahead, you know you want to ....
Posted by:gorb

#11  It's the cat's "land on your feet" algorithms conflicting with the quadricopters stabilization algorithms that is causing the instability.
Posted by: gorb   2012-06-05 22:44  

#10  Now there's an idea; gonna needs some blaring music.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-06-05 19:20  

#9  I've seen vids of quadcopters doing synchronized precision flight. Maybe his control algorithms suck. Or need some time to learn, depending on the approach.

If you are going jihadi-hunting, you want one made from a pig. You could make heads explode - literally.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-06-05 19:11  

#8  Watching the flight it is unbalanced. That's where a good micro-controller should be on-board to fudge the power to each blade to compensate for the imbalance.
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-06-05 17:07  

#7  Should have made a pitbulcopter. Send that at the Jihadi's in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Charles   2012-06-05 14:03  

#6  Mad dogs and Englishmen.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-06-05 12:13  

#5  Fantastic! But his piloting skills are more than a bit lacking.
Posted by: AzCat   2012-06-05 10:48  

#4  Finally, a cat that is useful.

/I keed; had various cats over decades
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2012-06-05 09:41  

#3  Sick people.
Bury the damn thing.
And cry.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-06-05 08:48  

#2  For our younger, cloistered or foreign readers - they got a thing called a "sail cat", as descried by the late Jonathan Winters. You see when a cat is run over on the highway it just lays there for days. More cars and trucks keep runnin' over the dang thing. It gets flatter and flatter and dryer and dryer. Finally, some kid will go out there and peel this flat, dead, carcass off the highway, then fling it, like a Frisbee, across a corn field, just to see how far it will go. You know, a "sail cat"!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-06-05 08:35  

#1  A mechanized "Sail Cat".
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2012-06-05 03:58  

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