Igor Sikorsky, an outstanding Russian aircraft designer and industrialist, was one of the pioneers of aviation in Russia. Characteristically, the first aircraft built by Sikorsky in the years 1908-1911 was the coaxial helicopters. Powerful enough engines don’t allow these helicopters to take off, but sympathy for these unusual cars he kept for life.
In addition to the rather exotic projects, such as, for example, a huge steam-powered submarines for action with the Navy type “K”, or underwater monitors of the “M”, the British Navy continued to “correct” the development of a universal underwater “Admiralty” boats long range, launched in 1908, a type “D”. We remember that the most successful boats made basically the severity of the First world war, were three series of the type “E”, built in the beginning of the war until its end. However, the designers did not intend to stop there.
The development of L-29 was started in 1955, took the initiative by a group of engineers from the Research and test flight Institute of Czechoslovakia. First flight of L-29 made the April 5, 1959 L-29 Czechoslovak is the first serial jet car. In 1961, by decision of the Soviet government for political reasons he was selected as the main training aircraft of the countries-participants of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. This decision was not fair – L-29 was lost to the Yak-30 in all the parameters was heavier on 765 kg had a 30% lower thrust-to-weight, 33% less range and less speed.
In the family of PEUGEOT has a car class. Your first car, Armand Peugeot in collaboration with Leon serpolle built in the nineteenth century — it was heavy and bulky three-wheeled carriage with a steam engine, which has not successfully exhibited at the world exhibition in Paris in 1889. And who knows what would be in the future fate of Armand Peugeot, the owner of a small Bicycle factory in Beaulieu, if he had not met at the exhibition with Emile Levasseur and Gottlieb Daimler.
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The plane SB (ANT-40) — high-speed bomber, made of a metal cantilever monoplane with two engines M-100A located on the wing.
Model MAZ-525, as well as any car-truck, fun to do with the current mechanism of tipping. This obliges to elaborate the details of all devices under the bottom and found when the body is tilted. However, most of them can be seen and aluminum the body, so that their elaboration is still needed.
European sales of this vehicle started in September 2001. An incredible price for a fully “packaged” AVANTIME sellers were asking $ 36 000!— not deterred buyers. The car cost them and swear by all that was not only revolutionary shape of the body, was a completely new direction in automotive design, but all the “stuffing” of the new car.
Firm Volvo in 1998, has chosen the Moscow international motor show for the premiere of his new sedan VOLVO S80. This car is rightly called the flagship of the company. The fact that the new front-wheel platform that served as the basis S80, will be used when creating other models.
Middle class car AUDI A4. Firm Audi appeared in 1910, when August Horch, who had, according to his contemporaries, a very obstinate character, did not get along with his partners, who owned with him a company Horch in Zwickau (Saxony). In the end, the A. Horch had to leave his own company and founded in Zwickau another firm with the same name. Last, after the judgment of the court was renamed to Audi, which in Latin meant the same as Horch in German — “listen”.
Premiere of the OPEL ASTRA CABRIO was held at the Geneva motor show in 2001. It is worth noting that the firm already supplies Opel to market hatchbacks, sedans and coupes of the family ASTRA. And here’s another modification — convertible.