Boeing 777 Paper Model

[Assunta Gergely]

Inspiredby high school architecture class where he was assigned to create simple paper models using cut paper manilla folders, San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart went home to begin construction on an extremely ambitious project: a 1:60 scale reproduction of a Boeing 777 using some of the techniques he learned in class. That was in 2008, when Iaconi-Stewart was just a junior in high school.

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This is a model of Boeing PT-17 Stearman, from WWII era. A biplane from 40s, it was used as a trainer plane for many US fighter pilot. Now the plane use for acrobatic shows, private owned or even for crop dusting. I always combine many my hobbies into one if possible. As you may have know on my Facebook I've been busy experimenting with my new hobby, scratch building an RC plane using foam. The design method for foam aircraft model is pretty similar to paper model template version, but it's already simplified even more. I re-use the 3D model for making paper model template. The scale is 1:40 the same scale as the existing Wilga model. The template use formers and inner glue tabs, so you need to provide 2 kind of paper. You will need cardboard for its formers/ frames and 100 gram paper for the skins.

Paper airplane artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart sat down with Wired to explain how he spent the past decade, on and off, carefully creating a highly-detailed paper model of a Boeing 777 airliner using manila folders, X-ACTO blades, glue, and straight edges.

San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart is building a 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders, a project that he has been working on and off for the past 5 years. The 22-year-old began his incredibly detailed model back in 2008 after becoming inspired from an architecture class where he learnt to make simple models out of card. Iaconi-Stewart decided to take the idea a step further and began work on an airplane.

Iaconi-Stewart discovered a detailed schematic of an Air India 777-300ER online which he recreated in Adobe Illustrator before printing them directly onto the paper manila folders. Iaconi-Stewart says he has had to redesign many elements to make them work, saying that the hardest parts have been any curved sections or moving parts.

His model has every single detail from the overhead luggage compartments to the metal carts in the galley to the landing gear. Just going through the pictures one can appreciate how time consuming the process is. Indeed, Iaconi-Stewart devoted an entire summer just to the seats (20 minutes for an economy seat, four to six hours for business class, and eight hours for first class). He designed the engines in about a month and assembled them in four. The tail had to be rebuilt three times.

Boeing's Orbital Flight Tes-1 Starliner was launched on Dec 20 , 2019 from Cape Canaveral SLC-41, Florida, but due to a software problem that incorrectly kept the mission's time, it reached a late orbital insertion consuming too much fuel and could not dock to the International Space Station as it was planned.

This was the first uncrewed orbital test flight of Starliner and it landed in New Mexico two days after launch. After the successful landing, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams named the capsule "Calypso" after the Research vessel from Jacques Costeau.

This is a 1:96 papermodel part kit #1 that also includes the 1:100 docking version of Starliner that can dock to the ISS model. Kit #2 consists of the Atlas V rocket with the Aeroskirt adapter for the Centaur stage of the AXM Atlas V papermodel.

This collection contains photographs, articles, clippings, lecture, narrative, reports, and moving images that were collected by Emmit A. Koelle, Jr. during his aviation career. The Emmit A. Koelle, Jr. Papers are housed in one manuscript box and one non-standard box totaling 1.4 linear ft.

The collection arrived in good condition and then the processing archivist imposed order and identified three series with the first one being the Photographs Series, which is further organized into three subseries: 1. Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), 2. Bell Helicopter Company, and 3. Boeing/Vertol Company.

Subseries 1. includes exterior and interior images of some fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft tested at Edwards AFB during this time frame.

Subseries 2. depicts exterior shots of various Bell Helicopter products during their testing phases as well as helicopters that did go into production.

Subseries 3. shows only exterior shots of the Vertol (Helicopter Utility Piasecki second version) HUP-2, production model.

The second series is the Printed Media Series, which is further organized into five subseries: 1. Articles, 2. Clippings, 3. Lecture, 4. Narrative, and 5. Reports.

Subseries 1. emphasizes the Cessna Helicopter.

Subseries 2. shows Bell helicopters in a war-time setting.

Subseries 3. highlights an address given by Bartram Kelley, Vice President-Engineering, Bell Helicopter Company, showing the development of rotary-winged aircraft from autogiros to helicopters with special emphasis from Bell Helicopters' point of view.

Subseries 4. develops the background and progress of Bell's entry into the Advanced Attack Helicopter (AAH) program with its YAH-63.

Subseries 5. consists of four engineering reports, three of which are specific to the Cessna helicopter. The fourth report concerns a tandem rotor helicopter in a sideslip configuration.

The third series is the Moving Media Series. It contains one item, which is a VHS cassette. The narrator is Charlie Siebel who invented the Siebel Helicopter, which in effect became the Cessna Helicopter.

Permission to publish material from this collection in any form, current or future, must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.

Emmit A. Koelle, Jr.'s interest in aviation began at age five, when he built his first model airplane. By the age of sixteen, he had soloed in a Cessna 140, and in 1953, he had received his Single Engine Land (SEL) airplane private pilot's license. In 1957, he graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. Following that, he worked as a civil service employee at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) for three months, where he was a test engineer for experimental military helicopters.

While at Edwards AFB also in 1957, he entered active duty as an Air Force officer performing the same functions as his previous civil service work. In 1960, he was discharged from active duty with the United States Air Force and returned to the identical civil service work at Edwards. Boeing/Vertol in Philadelphia, Pa. then employed him as an Aero Engineer until 1962. "We got back to Texas as soon as we could..." where he again accepted a civil service job as an aerodynamicist at the U. S. Army maintenance facility in Corpus Christi.

In 1963, he and his family relocated to the Fort Worth area where he represented the Army's helicopter interest in the Bell OH-4 (later known as the model 206) certification, being performed by the Federal Aeronautics Administration (FAA). A year later, he transferred to the Army Representative Office at Bell Helicopter where he was Chief of Systems Engineering.

He retired from this job in 1988. Until his second retirement in 1999, he worked for Global Helicopter Technology as senior engineer. While at Global Helicopter Technology, he designed and oversaw the manufacture of helicopter components as well as overseeing their installation in airframes in the United States and abroad.

He currently resides in Bedford, Texas.

Emmit Koelle worked as an Air Force officer and as a civilian engineer. As a civilian, he worked for Boeing/Vertol in Philadelphia, PA as an aero engineer and at Bell Helicopter, as Chief of Systems Engineering, in Fort Worth, TX.

The Emmit A. Koelle, Jr. Papers were donated to the History of Aviation Collection, Special Collections and Archives Division, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas, by Emmit A. Koelle, Jr. on 2013-07-17.

All materials were in overall good condition. There were no signs of foxing, mold, dust nor mildewing. Some clippings and the VHS cassette are stored in an oversize box. The mostly 8 X 10 photographs were separated by acid-free paper sheets. Some rusted staples were removed and substituted with plastic-coated paper clips. All memorabilia are stored in one, special memorabilia box and one non-standard box.

On November 19 and 20, MHI Group employees conducted a science class about airplanes for 134 sixth graders of the Minami-konan Elementary School in Hiroshima. The class was taught using paper models of the Boeing 787.

The proceedings began with a simple introduction of the operations carried out at the nearby Hiroshima Machinery Works. The students were informed that the theme of the day's class, airplanes, was chosen because building airplanes is one of the tasks performed at the Hiroshima plant. The class-dealing specifically with learning why an airplane is able to fly-then got underway in cooperation with staff from DIRECTFORCE, a general incorporated association based in Tokyo.

To begin, the students set to making paper models of the Boeing 787 under the guidance of the day's instructors. They then tried flying their airplanes for the first time. Next, they were given a talk on the history and structure of aircraft. After that, they deepened their understanding by experiencing, each in turn, how wind power-air currents-works, using the air blown from a hair dryer. Equipped with this knowledge, the students then made improvements to their airplanes and flew them for a second time. This time, the planes were more stable and flew farther than before, arousing great surprise and joy in the students at discovering how even a small improvement produced big changes. Finally, the students divided into teams and took part in a contest to see whose airplane could fly the farthest. Some students' planes were even able to fly the entire width of their gymnasium, causing great excitement.

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