# Catcopter (not for the faint of heart) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046 "2012-06-04T16:03:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/21 "2012-06-04T18:51:12Z")
It’s the tail sticking straight out that does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/22 "2012-06-04T18:59:35Z")
Ok, so 1002 things to do with a dead cat. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/23 "2012-06-04T19:12:09Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > The [second video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNdcdNm9fY&feature=channel&list=UL) is much better, IMHO. Conclusive evidence that there is more than one way to fly a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/24 "2012-06-04T19:24:51Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > The [second video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNdcdNm9fY&feature=channel&list=UL) is much better, IMHO. His glassy-eyed stare of determination really sells it. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/25 "2012-06-04T19:31:18Z")
Why does this video NOT use “Flight of the Valkyries” as a soundtrack? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/26 "2012-06-04T19:32:19Z")
Well of course. You really gotta concentrate to keep you legs and tail out straight and stiff like that, much less being the pilot. Damn right Muldoon! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/27 "2012-06-04T19:49:20Z")
If the Taliban did a rip-off version of \*Maus, \* this is what the drones would look like. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/28 "2012-06-04T19:57:07Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > If the Taliban did a rip-off version of \*Maus, \* this is what the drones would look like. What, weapons of mouse destruction? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/29 "2012-06-04T19:58:54Z")
Anticipated well in advance by [B Kliban](http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=88882.0;attach=149246;image). ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/30 "2012-06-04T20:11:36Z")
The pilots flying was sort of stiff. I hope he learns how to do a dead-stick landing. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/31 "2012-06-04T20:44:16Z")
So, technology has made it even easier for a cat to get stuck up in a tree. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/32 "2012-06-04T20:46:46Z")
Am I the only one a little disturbed by that? Sorry to be a buzzkill but I was brought up not to play with dead things. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/33 "2012-06-04T21:17:24Z")
Like leather shoes on a footballer ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/34 "2012-06-04T21:19:34Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Why does this video NOT use “Flight of the Valkyries” as a soundtrack? That should be “Flight of the Siamese”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/35 "2012-06-04T21:32:11Z")
When people make the argument for solipsism, it’s things like this that refute the concept for me. Because I know that no matter how long I lived, I never would have come up with the idea of converting a dead cat into a helicopter. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/36 "2012-06-04T21:36:48Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > OK… everything in me as a pet lover says I should be horrified and repulsed by this… but instead I am ashamed to say that I am oddly amused. > > That is priceless! Yeah, me too. I’m a huge cat lover, but this doesn’t really bother me. It’s not like he killed the cat in order to do this. And it’s kind of cool. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/37 "2012-06-04T21:56:22Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > OK… everything in me as a pet lover says I should be horrified and repulsed by this… but instead I am ashamed to say that I am oddly amused. > > That is priceless! I think it helps that it’s actually a really good taxidermy job…not a phrase I use often. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/38 "2012-06-05T01:59:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When people make the argument for solipsism, it’s things like this that refute the concept for me. Because I know that no matter how long I lived, I never would have come up with the idea of converting a dead cat into a helicopter. Actually it’s a multirotor, or more precisely a quadcopter. 😉 It’s a pity the guy can’t fly well, that thing buzzing down the neighbourhood would be hilarious. I can’t just picture flying squirrels going: “:eek: well, f\_\_k me!” ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/39 "2012-06-05T02:09:11Z")
Imagine this thing buzzing the neighborhood dogs. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catcopter-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/624046/40 "2012-06-05T02:21:27Z")
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