San Francisco based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart is a young man who has just as much talent as he does free time. Taking his passion for civil aircraft to the next level, he put together an accurate 1/60 scale model of an Air India Boeing 777 using nothing more than the paper from manilla folders (a type of envelope for documents).
What's amazing is that Iaconi-Stewart is young. Born in 1991, this 23-year old shows skill beyond his years. It took no less than 5 years of dedication to put together a replica of the aircraft. The designer says that so far, over 10,000 hours have gone into the project. That's 1,250 work days, which probably means he had very little time for anything else in his whole life.
Iaconi-Stewart has reportedly said a whole summer went into making the cabin. That's 20 minutes to make an economy seat, about four hours for business class and eight for first class. But we're more impressed with the wings and the undercarriage of his scale jetliner. It must have taken him many sleepless nights to put together perfectly round wheels, spokes, struts and a complex array of other mechanical bits.
“There’s something rewarding about being able to replicate a part in such an unconventional medium,” he told Wired magazine in an interview.
Once the Boeing 777 is finished, Luca wants to start another, even larger paper aircraft project. We're going to stay glued to his Youtube channel for more footage once that happens.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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