Six young men have spent around $120,000 (800,000 yuan) creating a frame reminiscent of the Airbus 320 using hammers and electric welding machines in Kaiyuan, Northeast China's Liaoning province, according to Shenyang Evening News.

据《沈阳晚报》报道，在中国东北辽宁省开原市，六名年轻人花了大约12万美元（约合80万元人民币），用锤子和电焊机造出了一架“空客320”。

With little knowledge of mechanics, the six amateur aircraft makers¹ turned more than 40 metric tons of iron into a 37-meter-long and 36-meter-wide frame, much like those used to build the Airbus 320, within less than one year.

这六位业余的飞机制造者，对飞机结构知之甚少，但却在不到一年的时间里，将40多吨的钢铁打造成37米长、36米宽的空客320框架。

The young men encountered several setbacks in their efforts to obtain measurement data from an Airbus model.

这些年轻人在努力获取空客模型的测量数据时遇到了一些挫折。

At first, they tried to use computers to zoom² in on the model, but the model was too small to produce accurate data. Later, they hired a company to do three-dimensional measurements on the model, but errors still occurred, which kept them revising the data.

起初，他们试图用电脑放大模型，但模型太小，无法获取准确的数据。后来，他们聘请了一家公司对该模型进行三维测量，可是误差仍然存在，这让他们不断地修改数据。

"When welding the engine, we were stumped³. It took us a lot of effort to weld the 200 pieces of sheet iron. Luckily, we made it," said Zhu Yue, who once worked as a motorcycle repairman.

曾经是一名摩托车修理工的朱跃表示：“做发动机焊口的时候，我们被难住了。将200多个小铁片连接在一起费了很大周折。好在我们成功了。”

Zhu also said when the "Airbus 320" is finished, it could be used either as a wedding venue⁴ or a theme restaurant where staff could dress like flight attendants.

朱跃还表示，当“空客320”完工后，它既可以用作婚礼场地，也可以作为主题餐厅，而餐厅服务员都穿着空姐制服。