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Pneumatic Powered Drone Wasn’t Made to Fly

José Manuel Hermo Barreiro, also known as Patelo, is a retired 
naval mechanic with a love for scale model engines. Using only 
basic tools and a lathe, he has built a non-flying hexacopter 
display model, each propeller turned by a tiny single cylinder 
motor that runs on compressed air.

From the tiny components of the valve systems, the brass framed 
acrylic windows into the crankcases, and the persistence of vision 
disc on the exhaust, the attention to detail is breathtaking.

He started the project on paper, and created a set of detailed
hand-drawn blueprints to work from. Sadly a large part of the
build took place during lockdown, and was not filmed, but we
still get to see some work on a crankcase, connecting rod,
camshaft, propellers, flywheel, and exhaust tubes. It is very clear
that he knows his way around his lathe very well, and is very
creative with custom tools and jigs. The beautiful machine took
approximately 1,560 hours to build, consists of 265 individually
made parts held together with 362 screws.

Sjekk video her: https://tinyurl.com/y5kx4aer

We previously featured tiny V-12 engine that [Patelo] built around 
2012. At that time he was 72 years of age, which means he should 
be around 80 now. We can only hope to come to emulate him one 
day, and that we get to see more of what comes out of his 
workshop….