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" Luca Iaconi-Stewart, 24, is a passionate fan of aviation, to put it lightly. He&amp;#039;s spent the last seven years constructing the most detailed model of a Air India Boeing 777 ever, using cut up manila folders as material.    His model includes every detail of the plane, down to bolts, bathrooms and areas like the crew rest module that regular passengers never even see. Each of the 342 seats was constructed meticulously before being put in place.    Iaconi-Stewart decided to build the model when the plane first debuted, in 2008. There were no engineering drawings of the plane readily available, so he had to study photos and a maintenance manual online to build his project.    Ianconi-Stewart didn&amp;#039;t just build the outside of the impressive aircraft. He also built the engine, and made sure all the parts were functioning. &amp;quot;The [engine&amp;#039;s] thrust reversers were tricky,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I did not understand how they worked. I had to study videos on YouTube, and I also found a photograph looking at the back of the engine. My design looked good on paper, so I hoped for the best.&amp;quot;  The designs for the model began as computer drawings, which Ianconi-Stewart would then print out and lay on top of manila envelopes, which he cut with an X-Acto knife. Just the engine took him a month to design and four months to put together. He spent the last two years building the plane&amp;#039;s wings, and he has work to do still. Maybe he&amp;#039;ll finish the model by 2020.   All of this is more impressing seeing as Ianconi-Stewart has no engineering training. Professionals are similarly astonished by his feat. &amp;quot;This is an amazingly accurate model of the GE90 engine,&amp;quot; Boeing 777 pilot Capt. Richard Sowden says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s fascinating to follow the build through the slide sequence and view the details in the engine made solely from paper.&amp;quot;  See more photos of the model on the Ianconi-Stewart&amp;#039;s Flickr page, and read an interview with him on GE Reports.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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