As a follow - up to sour the classicLego Solo Trainer set into a fully - functional RC aeroplane , aerospace engineerAdam Woodworthis back with an even more telling build : he somehow made this tiny27 - year - onetime Lego Space Shuttle actually fly .
Many of us probably remember set # 1682,Space Shuttle Launch , released right smart back in 1990 . After all , it carried so many of our Lego minifigures into imaginary scope .
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Adam rebuilds the entire circle from scratch , but alas — he leave behind out the item where he somehow managed to make the birdie itself wing . await athis Instagram account , however , reveals that he most likely build a duplication of the birdie out of newspaper so that it was light enough to take off with just three flyspeck propellers on the bottom .
Update , 10:09 a.m. EST / EDT : According to Adam , the Shuttle ’s material body is made from one - millimeter froth and weighs somewhere around 2.5 gramme . All of the petite Lego studhorse on top were made by using a hole punch and then gluing each one in place .
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