Wacky Inventor Who Made Drone With Dead Cat Has Got Another Bonkers Idea

Dutch artist Bart Jansen first grabbed headlines when he turned his dead pet cat into a grotesque quadcoptor and has now turned his attention to cows.

When the designer’s 4-year-old feline Orville was sadly run over and killed, Jansen made the controversial decision to transform his dearly departed pet’s body into a flyable drone.

Poor Orville was preserved by a taxidermist before having propellors attached to his paws, resulting in a macabre creation called the Orvillecopter, which Jansen described as “half cat, half machine”.

Orville was preserved before being rigged up to powered propellors (REX/Shutterstock)

The unlucky cat was originally named after aviation pioneer Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, so when the designer chose to create a monument to his deceased pet, a helicopter was his first choice.

The cat ‘coptor was first launched in 2014, and two years on, the inventor has another idea up his sleeve.

Owner Bart Hansen and engineer Arjen Beltman flying the ‘Orvillecopter’ (REX/Shutterstock)

"If I’m going to fly, I want to fly in something weird. So we’ve been thinking about animals that are big enough to fly in,” he told the BBC.

”We have a cow at the moment - it’s at the tannery right now. It’s going to be like a bovine personnel carrier, but airborne.”

Jansen already makes custom drones for people who want their departed pets transformed into flying machines.

Image credit: REX/Shutterstock