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# Christmas Tree Drone Delivers Yuletide Nightmares
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/christmas-tree-drone-delivers-yuletide-nightmares/
- Published: 2014-12-25T02:24:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:43:41.000Z
- Description: How does Santa deliver all those gifts in just a few short hours every Christmas? With drones, of course!
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: In Brief, drones, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![Otto Dieffenbach's flying Christmas tree (YouTube screenshot by the author)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/12/christmas-tree-drone-2.jpg)

Otto Dieffenbach’s flying Christmas tree (YouTube screenshot by the author)

How does Santa deliver all those gifts in just a few short hours every Christmas? With drones, of course! It seems so obvious now, having just watched footage — presumably intended to be cheerful, but actually rather frightening — of Otto Dieffenbach’s [drone Christmas tree](http://youtu.be/yyC1aqRY-jQ?ref=hyperallergic.com) in action.

Dieffenbach is the director and head of marketing and sales at [Flyguy Promotions](http://www.flyguypromotions.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a drone-based advertising company in San Diego that creates custom flying rigs for brands. His other airborne sculptures include beloved superheroes like Iron Man and Superman, a witch on a broom, and, perhaps most disturbingly, a [bikini-clad model](http://youtu.be/jGog7Q5IBR0?ref=hyperallergic.com) with angel wings.

Though Dieffenbach’s Christmas tree drone isn’t as shocking as other drone-powered artworks of note — like, say. Bart Jansen’s “[Orvillecopter](http://hyperallergic.com/52727/required-reading-64/)” — it’s the shape of the airborne conifer and its disquieting resemblance to fighter jets and [actual drones used by the US military](http://www.theuav.com/army%5Fi-gnat%5Fer.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) that makes the footage you’re about to see so unsettling.

*h/t* [*Creators Project*](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/9-artists-take-on-the-future-of-christmas-trees?ref=hyperallergic.com)