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Title: Kittycopter!
Post by: chromium on June 06, 2012, 12:54:19 PM
"Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html#ixzz1x2md95Zv

 :o (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/smilies/bananadead3.gif)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154283-136ED7F3000005DC-412_634x412.jpg)
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: gweimer on June 06, 2012, 12:57:10 PM
We now have a new definition for the "love that shall not be spoken".  Where do these people come from?  And why does anyone care?
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Highlander on June 06, 2012, 01:04:13 PM
Well, as the video on that link shows, it makes as successful a 'copter as it did a cat in it's previous life... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Dave W on June 06, 2012, 01:41:03 PM
Where do these people come from? 

Holland.

To be fair, seriously disturbed "artists" are everywhere.

His life has been threatened by animal rights extremists. I found the kittycopter disturbing but I support his right to do something goofy with his already-taxidermied cat.

Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: chromium on June 06, 2012, 03:32:37 PM
Yeah, the flying dead pet concept always struck me as sorta creepy ???

I suggested to my wife that when the time comes, in lieu of burial or cremation, she could have me stuffed and transformed into dad-o-copter!  Strap a Thunderbird to me and terrorize the neighborhood...  :)  She's not into it, though.  Ah well..
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: drbassman on June 07, 2012, 05:07:18 AM
I've had bosses I'd like to do that to!!!!
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: godofthunder on June 07, 2012, 06:20:02 AM
I've had bosses I'd like to do that to!!!!
Bill I'm surprised! LOL I can think of a few myself.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Dave W on June 07, 2012, 06:56:28 AM
You wouldn't want your stuffed former bosses hovering over the neighborhood, would you? Maybe just displaying them in a trophy case would be safer.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Chris P. on June 07, 2012, 07:03:35 AM
Holland.

Yes, everybody in Holland has such a cat-helicopter. Mostly with a camera mounted, so we can check our tulips.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Dave W on June 07, 2012, 07:07:48 AM
Yes, everybody in Holland has such a cat-helicopter. Mostly with a camera mounted, so we can check our tulips.

Also useful for checking on your dikes and watching for marauding German tribes.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: gweimer on June 07, 2012, 07:38:44 AM
Also useful for checking on your dikes and watching for marauding German tribes.

You know, I'm sure there are way too many cameras pointing at leaking dikes.   
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Chris P. on June 07, 2012, 08:57:53 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Chris P. on June 07, 2012, 08:58:53 AM
If the Germans dare to come again, we'll just break the mahogany necks of theur Gibsons. That'll teach 'm!!
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Highlander on June 07, 2012, 01:27:53 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/101UsesforDeadCat.jpg)

They'll have to re-print...
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: 4005 on June 07, 2012, 01:32:26 PM
Orville the “Helicator” has a number of vids on YT, I’m real conflicted about this, I think because I just can’t ever imagine stuffing one of my pets, I mean did the guy run up to his poor run-over Cat & see him flattened out like that & think “My how Aerodynamic!” at least he didn’t arm Orville w/ rockets I hope DARPA doesn’t see this they’ll have all kinds of dead pets lined up for wind tunnel testing at Langley

 

Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Denis on June 07, 2012, 04:47:51 PM
As a cat owner and animal lover, I tend to find this pretty disrespectful.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Dave W on June 07, 2012, 08:54:17 PM
As a cat owner and animal lover, I tend to find this pretty disrespectful.

Yeah, if he loved his pet, he's really not honoring its memory in any way I would consider normal.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Basvarken on June 07, 2012, 11:45:10 PM
Is setting fire to your deceased cat normal?

Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on June 08, 2012, 12:54:36 AM
I hope DARPA doesn’t see this they’ll have all kinds of dead pets lined up for wind tunnel testing at Langley

Nah. They've got poor people for that.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: nofi on June 08, 2012, 05:35:18 AM
http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/horses/2006/11/5/roy-rogers-trigger.html

jeez, roy stuffed everything! luckily he died before dale. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: rahock on June 08, 2012, 05:40:29 AM
As a cat owner and animal lover, I tend to find this pretty disrespectful.

You are very polite.
Rick
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Dave W on June 08, 2012, 06:59:44 AM
http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/horses/2006/11/5/roy-rogers-trigger.html

jeez, roy stuffed everything! luckily he died before dale. :mrgreen:

I remember seeing Roy and Dale talking about this on Carson, must have been late 70s. Dale said she was thinking of having Roy stuffed too.

That museum closed a couple of years ago. Trigger, Bullet and the rest of the contents were all auctioned off.
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: uwe on June 13, 2012, 09:26:25 AM
"Cats away! Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html#ixzz1x2md95Zv

 :o (http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/smilies/bananadead3.gif)

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154283-136ED7F3000005DC-412_634x412.jpg)


Ah, a still flyable Consolidated CATalina. A rare find.


It's nice if cats are put to something useful, don't we all agree?

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBL2s0nOsQjSDrqHpR14DK1mKhLnFt3RPin7ohUZQ-rnpF6RLx)


We have new neighbors with a cat named "Liselotte", the (in recent decades not very prevalent) name of my late mother. Chris might have had the reincarnation of JAE as a feline companion, but with me mom has now moved back in!

Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Highlander on June 13, 2012, 12:55:46 PM
How could I not have seen the connection...

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/US/2006090353.jpg)
I just didn't have the 17k to hand to become a partner...

I recently watched this beastie doing circuits round Duxford one afternoon, purely by chance; a considerably better flyer...
Title: Re: Kittycopter!
Post by: Pilgrim on June 13, 2012, 03:13:30 PM
I hope DARPA doesn’t see this they’ll have all kinds of dead pets lined up for wind tunnel testing at Langley

Hey, what a cool way to fool terrorists....build a drone into a dead moose.....

"What's that up there?"
"Nuthin.  Just another moose."

Maybe they'd have to be pretty dumb terrorists.