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If ever there was a bit of kit with shed written all over it then the Box-O-Copter is definitely it - a flying plastic toolbox knocked together by the chaps at FliteTest. The Box-O-Copter Apart from being agreeably silly, the Box-O-Copter was built on the principle of "brain not frame" - investing cash in avionics and …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Done for the sheer thrill of the challenge

    Suitable bonkers.

  2. Mondo the Magnificent
    Pint

    I have to ask...

    ..will it carry tools or equally important, a six pack of beer?

    As for making unorthodox items fly, as my son and I share the rewarding, but expensive hobby of RC, we've seen radio controlled lawnmowers that fly, however they are based on the principle of basic aircraft design.

    I also recall the flying dildo based on an RC chopper that invaded a Russian press conference a few years back (Video can be viewed on YouTube)

    It seems that man is drawn to the challenge of making weird objects airborne

    1. Semtex451

      Re: I have to ask...

      "..will it carry tools"

      I'd be surprised if it has the lift capacity for x1 Std US Wrench.

      The spanners.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: I have to ask...

        >Std US Wrench

        Is this a new dumbing down sizing system for tools, like cups for cooking?

        1. Martin Budden Silver badge
          Paris Hilton

          Re: I have to ask...

          cups for cooking

          I thought cups were for Bulgarian Airbags?

    2. Sporkinum

      Re: I have to ask...

      "It seems that man is drawn to the challenge of making weird objects airborne"

      Flying piano.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigqs1UGneI

      A friend of mine made and flew this back in the 70s.

      http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showatt.php?attachmentid=3928453

      1. Martin Budden Silver badge

        Re: I have to ask...

        It seems that man is drawn to the challenge of making weird objects airborne

        dead cat quadcopter

      2. Dr. Ellen

        Re: I have to ask...

        If you only wanted to fly the piano once, it'd be simpler to use a trebuchet.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr2GuK_RJS0

  3. Nifty Silver badge

    Private Eye will have to take this item off it's Xmas spoof adverts now as it really exists

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Cruel and unusual punishment aka. torture

    I don't like to use expletives but I think I could be excused this time if I did. Here I am sat in an office with an overwhelming desire to just get up and leave, go to my workshop, hit things with a big hammer and give my new angle grinder a thorough workout and you publish this article.

    I'll be walking up the walls before lunchtime.

    1. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge

      Re: Cruel and unusual punishment aka. torture

      Bless. Just adopt the lotus position and dream of pliers.

      1. Semtex451

        Re: Pliers

        Perhaps its time for a spanner buzzgasm?

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Cruel and unusual punishment aka. torture

        >lotus position and dream of pliers.

        Sod that. Lunchtime, half a bottle of wine and the afternoon is looking just about bearable. I reckon if I ate more slowly I'd manage a full bottle and then I could write off the afternoon completely.

        Ya sabes, aqui, la vida es bella. Especially the afternoons.

  5. Elmer Phud

    Still not a touch on the Dead Cat Copter

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Luggage revisted

    That is thier job, they get to make stuff like that, for a living.

    My life sucks.

  7. paulc

    Aerial Laser Tag?

    Looks like that could take a laser tag harness and gun on board it for an aerial game...

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    after the flying dead cat,

    everything else is just jumping the shark. ooh I know, a shark quadcopter...with lazers! worldwide media coverage, here I come!

    1. Robert Helpmann??
      Childcatcher

      Re: after the flying dead cat,

      Flying monkey FTW!

  9. Rob Crawford

    Dollar must have devalued a lot

    That's a hell of a high price to pay for an APM

  10. roger stillick
    Happy

    Thought Sheds were only in OZ...

    Was told by a maker in Australia years ago that almost all the folks in a given area down there get to play in city provided shops called sheds...sort of like a public library w/power tools.

    IMHO= Here in the USA we go out to the shop n make stuff...makers not sheddies, but hey... I'll take it cuz sheddies sounds kinda cool...from an aging hipster maker...RS.

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