The Orvillecopter is a quadcopter creation of Bart Jansen, a Dutch artist. The Orvillecopter is created from taxidermied dead cat skin (Orville), two Stock LotusRC orange propellers and two Stock LotusRC blue propellers, and is based mostly on the LotusRC T580 quadcopter as it’s frame mostly consists of it.
Origin
Bart Jansen decided to create a ‘half cat half machine’ after his pet cat Orville (whom is named after Orville Wright) got struck by a car. After the mourning of the dead cat, he began to stuff the cadaver, and he enlisted the help of a radio control helicopter flier which is Arjen Beltman. Currently, the Orvillecopter itself resides at the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital. The Orvillecopter does not fly right and is facing weak engines and propellers, thus he is going to reconstruct the Orvillecopter with better, more powerful engines and rotors for a more steady flight. The Orvillecopter is presented but it got negative feedback as most people see this as animal cruelty and shameful. Graffiti was written as “kill the animal killers” and “shame” was written on the convention center as a complaint to see a beloved family member be created into a helicopter. Other major animal groups disliked this such artistry that other countries of animal groups disliked his creativity to turn this cat into a ’copter as well.
The Orvillecopter recieved a song aswell.
Google Insights
The Orvillecopter was widespread near early June 2012 but lost popularity somewhat. Still googled but not as often.
External Links
[1]Orvillecopter Site – Bart’s Official Site
[2]Telegraph News – Half cat, half machine: Dutch artist turns dead cat Orville into the Orvillecopter
[3]Encyclopedia Dramatica – Orvillecopter™
[4]Huffingtonpost – Orvillecopter: Artist Bart Jansen Turns His Dead Cat Into A Helicopter