Imagine this: you’re standing on the shore of Ecuador’s Lake San Pablo, with a view of the dormant Imbabura volcano before you, and parked nearby is… no, not a luxurious camper with panoramic windows and a rooftop hot tub. Next to you stands an ordinary Chevrolet Super Carry—the same van you’ve seen a thousand times Read more…
When setting off on a long journey, a skier typically relies only on their own strength. However, it’s quite possible to call on the wind for help by building a sailing tug for this purpose. Assembling such a tug is quite simple, using rigging from a sailboard — a mast, wishbone boom, and sail with Read more…
Maneuverable, compact vehicles are vital, especially in snow-covered and forested areas. In some countries, such as the USA, Canada, and Japan, this problem is solved by producing compact machines like snowmobiles. Our industry has also started producing such equipment: snowmobiles “Buran”, “Amurets” and others have appeared. However, these machines are more for recreation; they don’t Read more…
Many readers, after the editorial board asked them what amateur constructions (for water, land, and air) they were interested in, sent hundreds of letters to the editorial office requesting the publication of drawings and a description of a light foldable boat for amateur fishermen, tourists traveling on blue roads, for all those who love nature Read more…
Back in pre-reform and even pre-perestroika times, on my birthday, one of my milestone dates, the management of the enterprise where I worked and my colleagues, knowing about my passionate hobby of small vessels (boats, motorboats, hydrofoils), gave me an outboard motor “Vikhr-30R”. I didn’t even dream of such a thing then: it cost a Read more…
At the X All-Union Week of Science, Technology and Production for Children and Youth, held in January 1983 in the capital of Uzbekistan, many interesting developments from many cities of the Soviet Union were gathered. Including from Tashkent itself. Specialists, participants and guests of the week remembered the samples of transport equipment presented by the Read more…
Georgy Sergeevich Khokhlachev is a military pensioner, 77 years old. Throughout his conscious life, he has been enthusiastically engaged in technical creativity: rationalization work, radio engineering, photography, and much more. In his searches, the tireless amateur regularly turns to publications in popular science publications, including the magazine “Modelist-Konstruktor”. G. S. Khokhlachev decided to present one Read more…
There was a time when artistic design pursued purely decorative goals. Artists worked only on the form of machines. This explains the presence of a large number of decorative elements in the designs of automobiles of the not-so-distant past. Now the tasks of artistic design have expanded significantly. A modern designer (artist-constructor), trying to make Read more…
Snowmobile technology is finding increasingly wider application today. Industry and amateur craftsmen create the most diverse machine designs, specifically intended for winter operation. But then spring comes, and the powerful “Buran” goes to the garage for storage — waiting for the next season, while its owner switches to another “steed,” most often — a motorcycle. Read more…
The metal detector I developed has not yet been used in peacekeeping operations to detect and neutralize minefields, nor in large-scale geological or archaeological surveys. Designed not for professionals, but for amateurs whose desire to “look underground” can be satisfied by a design with the parameters given in the table, it is an improved version Read more…
