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Inventor creates flying ostrich

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A Dutch inventor says he's created the world's first flying ostrich - by attaching propellors to a stuffed bird.

Bart Jenson has spent the last 12 months working on his OstrichCopter, reports Metro.

"I thought it was really funny to make fly a bird that can't. It's quite a challenge to get the thing flying," he said.

He previously made headlines when he turned his beloved dead cat Orville into a helicopter after it was tragically run over by a car.

For his latest project, Mr Jenson got a dead ostrich from a farm and took it to a taxidermist to have it skinned and tanned.

He and and his sidekick, technical engineer Arjen Beltman, then set about fitting it with engines and propellers.

Their hard work paid off when they recently took the remote-controlled flying ostrich for a successful test flight.

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Maybe it's just me but I don't find anything funny about this. Do you?
 
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