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No, not that one..

Lilicoptère by artist Joana Vasconcelos is a Bell47 helicopter adorned with ‘ostrich feathers, Swarovski crystals, gold leaf, industrial coating, dyed leather upholstery embossed with fine gold, Arraiolos rugs, walnut wood, wood grain painting and passementerie’.

The sculpture – Vasconcelos’ vision of what Marie Antoinette would have had commissioned for herself – had such a thing been available in late 18th century Paris – was exhibited at the Palais de Versailles last year.

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Update:

Stephen Bourke writes:

But the picture you wanted to post was of two bewildered Dublads with the feathercopter

 

 


This is what happens when you synchronise the frame rate of a video camera with the frequency of a helicopter’s spinning rotors.

The camera and the helicopter were subsequently tried by a council of village elders and burned.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYOKSBHxmI

A ridiculously skillful US Chinook helicopter pilot takes up position on a hillside – rear rotor decapitatingly close to the slope – as troops scramble into the back.

Apparently, it’s called a ‘pinnacle landing’.

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