Yahoo Autos Man Spent 10 Years And 10,000 Hours Building An Incredibly Detailed Boeing Paper Airplane
Building an airplane is no easy feat, but one man spent 10 years and 10,000 hours painstakingly crafting a 1:60 scale model of Boeing’s 777-300ER using nothing but manila folders and glue in what may be the longest wait time ever for a Boeing machine. The paper airplane game has just met its match.
Luca Iaconi-Stewart first kicked off his Air India replica passion in 2008, Simple Flying reports, after which point he decided to launch into designing and building something complex. His inspiration was Boeing’s 777-300ER decked out in an Air India livery, and instead of just making a model that looks cool, he decided to make it functional, too: the model features moving parts and even a paper version of the plane’s General Electric GE90-115B engine.
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Talent like this is rare, and it has come with some tumultuous happenings. Iaconi-Stewart first got started on his Boeing project when he was in college and found that he needed to postpone his studies to be able to give his paper airplane more attention, something I am sure went down well at the family dinner table. However, he’s also partnered with companies like Singapore Airlines to build paper versions of the Airbus A380.
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