HISPANO-SUIZA K8

HISPANO-SUIZA K8“Lulls you into soft swing blue “Spanish-Suiza” — these lines from a song of Alexander Vertinsky characterize the car is very well known in the first half of the last century firms yzhotavlyvaly super-expensive Executive cars, being at that time a symbol of luxury and a sign of business success of its owner.

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FURY WITH A SPANISH ACCENT

FURY WITH A SPANISH ACCENTFighter biplane Hawker FURY. The first third of the century of aviation, leading the countdown from the flight of the Wright brothers in 1903, can be called the era of biplanes. Most of the Diptera of the devices looked like, now look, this is awkward; much more rarely met biplanes elegant, with clean aerodynamic shape. Typically, these machines have left an appreciable trace in the history of world aviation, differing not only beauty, but also the best performance characteristics.

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TRAPPED IN THE”HOLLANDS”

TRAPPED INThe views of Americans on submarines before the First world war was somewhat different from those in European fleets. Overseas shipbuilders in those “baby” years of development of submarine fleets subdivided future of the submarine on the defensive and the ocean, or “Navy”. The main tasks for the first expected linear attack enemy forces that supposedly can attack the ports of the Atlantic coast. Unlike Europe, to block the vast sea of space mines was not possible, so the boats could really become an important component of coastal defense.

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FRIGATES AGAINST SUBMARINES

FRIGATES AGAINST SUBMARINESIn the summer of 1971 the calm waters of the North sea became the scene of very interesting events. On 6 July the Bay of the Firth of forth, the two venerable British ship, once very similar to each other and belong to the same class destroyers. Now only one of them, “cava-lier”, preserved obligatiry. The second, which bore the significant name of “Rapid” (“Fast”), apparently has little resembled its close relative. Extensive superstructure from side to side occupied almost a quarter of the length of the body, which is due this visually seemed much higher and more massive than in “Cavalier”. The weapons looked more than modest — only the stern was visible coaxial gun mount, stared too serious by the impressive lattice masts and numerous radars.

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UNKNOWN CELEBRITY

THE UNKNOWN CELEBRITYFlying boat POTEZ 452. In the early 1930-ies of the French aviation firm Aeroplanes Henri Potez (“Aeroplanes Henri Poteza”) built a small flying boat Potez 452, which has become one of the most interesting and yet little-known seaplane naval aviation of France. Small series, consisting of 16 aircraft of this type, left quite a significant mark in aviation history: these cars had a chance to fly over virtually all continents, and in the battle line, they remained until 1944.

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FORD MUSTANG

FORD MUSTANGOne of the most famous cars of the 20th century top five “Great American cars”, became the FORD MUSTANG appeared on the market in 1964. The original design combined with powerful 6 – or 8-cylinder engine made the car one of the most popular in the United States. Already in 1966, the release of the FORD MUSTANG reached a million copies.

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FAREWELL TO “FIELD”

FAREWELL TO Four-wheel drive SUV VAZ-2121 “Niva”. This car became a real sensation in the domestic automotive industry. Her appearance was preceded by numerous rumors, speculation and gossip. Soviet motorist, not spoiled by the quality of the roads, has long been needed comfortable passenger all wheel drive SUV, which could with equal success to all around the pavement and the road. And in 1977 he descended from the conveyor of the Volga automobile plant’s first mass—produced all-wheel drive Niva.

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“PRIEST” AND “SEXTON” SELF — PROPELLED HOWITZER OF THE ALLIES

From the beginning of the Second world war in the United States of America closely followed the fighting in Europe and I must say, doing generally the right conclusions from the experience of others. In particular, did not go unnoticed and the first evidence of the use by German forces self-propelled artillery. In 1940 the Americans launched work on the creation of artillery systems of similar purpose. As in the case of self-propelled tank destroyers (“modelist-Konstruktor” No. 1, 2002), the first versions of ACS, armed with field howitzers, was established on the basis of half-track armored personnel carrier M3. On the first set, the swinging part 75-mm mountain howitzer M1A1 on the second — 105-mm field howitzer М2А1. These machines received the designation T30 T19 NMS and NMS, respectively. The abbreviation NMS stands for Howitzer Motor Carriage, which literally means “the engine crew howitzer”, but in the semantic — self-propelled howitzer.

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THE HEIR OF A PICKUP TRUCK

THE HEIR OF A PICKUP TRUCKThe increased capacity PEUGEOT PARTNER. The emergence of a new class of vehicles — the process is usually lengthy. It often happens — the “cool” concept car of unusual shape and unknown purpose produces a sensation at the international car dealers, kindly found by buyers installation series of these cars, well then… Where are these recent global trends — hybrids minivans with sports cars or super-expensive urban mini-cars? At the same time there is growing popularity of new cars recently introduced class, who still do not have a name (some call these cars a station wagon with a high roof, the other — increased capacity, some superuniversality) increases, respectively, and the number of firms producing a similar vehicle. Today coming off the Assembly line a lot of superuniversal — one of them in the first place, PEUGEOT PARTNER, RENAULT KANGOO, CITROEN BERLINGO (DONINVEST ORION M), and FIAT DOBLO.

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