Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]Amazing Info's | Lucani Iaconi-Stewart, 22-year-old aviation fanatic from San Francisco, has spent the past five years making an amazing minutely detailed, 1:60 scale replica of an Air India Boeing 777 using 400 manila folders.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]Iaconi-Stewart is entirely amateur as a model maker, apart from the architecture class at school, however, it seems unbelievable when you look at the extremely accurate rendering of the mini aircraft from the undercarriage tire tread, through the gorgeous undulation of the engine-fan blades, the class-conscious carving of economy, business and first class seats to the font of the airplane livery.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]It's equally incredible that his mini creation is made from manila folders and that's what he liked about them.
“They’re really unassuming material and readily available,” Iaconi-Stewart said.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]He might be inexperienced, but one qualification he surely does hold, an unusual audacity and focus. For instance, each economy class seat, took 20 minutes of cutting, folding, fiddling and gluing.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]“Progress on the plane was especially tricky in the beginning because there were no publicly available assembly drawings. I spent a lot of time making drawings from pictures. Then I got hold of a maintenance manual for people who maintain airplanes. It contains plenty of detail, which is useful for specific parts, but you still have to draw everything from scratch. It consumes a lot of time,” Iaconi-Stewart explained.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]He only got the wings to go now. He's hoping to be done by the summer, although, given that the engines took almost half a year from planning to completion, the last stage most likely won't be a doddle.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]“In theory, it could fly if I designed it properly but it'd have to be a lot lighter and with more moving parts,” He said.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]They may sometimes be nice to ride in but we forget that a jetliner is a beautiful, sleek thing.
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Photo Credit: Lucani Iaconi-Stewart[/caption]“They have nice proportions. Choosing a plane was a visual decision for me. An impulse. But it's not something I would dive back into. Not that I don't enjoy it but it can be isolating at times and frustrating. I want to do something more normal,” Iaconi-Stewart added.
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