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Joshua Jung, 23, has been making airplane models out of cardstock since he was 13 years old

He began sharing his creations on Instagram last year, and has since racked up more than 70,000 followers on the platform

Earlier this year, he decided to start gifting his models to pilots and he's sharing their reactions on TikTok

Joshua Jung isn’t normally the type of person who approaches strangers in an airport. Yet, his love of aviation and appreciation for airline workers pushed him to do something he never imagined.

Since Jung was little, he’s always been interested in airplanes, or as he describes it to PEOPLE, “big machines that fly.” By middle school, he discovered a community of fellow enthusiasts with collections of hundreds of die cast model planes. Although he wanted

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