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A flying cat? Dutch artist turns dead feline into a helicopter
Deborah Netburn
June 5, 2012The Orvillecopter by Dutch artist Bart Jansen (back L) flies in a gallery as part of the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam.
The Orvillecopter by Dutch artist Bart Jansen (back L) flies in a gallery as part of the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam. Photo: Reuters
You can find a lot of strange things on the internet, but this dead 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.
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Jansen said the Orvillecopter is part of a visual art project which pays tribute to his cat Orville, by making it fly after it was killed by a car.Jansen said the Orvillecopter is part of a visual art project which pays tribute to his cat Orville, by making it fly after it was killed by a car. Photo: Reuters
“After that he received his wings posthumously,” the artist writes in a description of a YouTube video showing the Orvillecopter’s first flight.
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