Flying Cats

Since the momma cat already knows how to glide from branch to branch using the wing suit the was fitted with at birth, she'll presumably show her kittens how to do the same.

Cats are already pretty good at landing and if you watch a slow motion video, they are very good at righting themselves and extending their legs out to cushion their fall. This is the same profile they'd have for a wing suit.

The exhibit would be set up with a series of cat towers padded for safety that the cats could climb and fly from, tower to tower like flying squirrels in trees. The floor would likewise be padded so any missed landing on an upper tier wouldn't result in any harm to the animal.

Why? Because this would be the star attraction of any circus, zoo or amusement part.

And why from the cat's perspective? I think that's self evident. The cats would love it. And after generations of cats that showed better prowess at flying mating with other similarly inclined kitties, (obviously better fliers would get the all the chicks) you'd have created a breed of flying cats, albeit a hybrid of animal and machine unless you can get into the genetics enough to grow flying squirrel style wing extensions between the front and back legs.

You could also train them by putting them in one of those indoor skydiving things with air blasting upwards.

Boy will this idea be missing the annotations of a particular sorely missed Halfbaker.