Luca Iaconi-Stewart (born around 1991) is an American designer who achieved widespread publicity in 2014 for building a 1/60-scale model of an

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s. Iaconi-Stewart began work on the model while a junior at

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in the late 2000s. He claimed it took 10,000 hours to complete and that he devoted an entire summer just to completing construction of the passenger seats.

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declared the model "the coolest paper airplane ever" while

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named Iaconi-Stewart "the world's best paper plane maker". According to Iaconi-Stewart, he dropped out of college at Vassar in order to devote more time to constructing the model. In an interview with ''

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'', Iaconi-Stewart said his work had been inspired by an effort to "push the limits of what could be done" with manila folders. As of 2014, Iaconi-Stewart is employed doing odd jobs in the San Francisco area.

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