Nowadays, many people use a bicycle as an indoor trainer in winter. The designs for the base vary widely. What they probably have in common is one thing: it gets rather boring to pedal in place. On a real road, the situation is constantly changing, which adds variety to the ride. But it is possible Read more…
For fifteen years I have subscribed to the magazine “Modelist-Constructor” and in every issue I find many interesting and useful articles for myself. I am a mechanical engineer by training, and I am especially interested in the creative developments of amateur designers. I myself, back in 1989, practically from scrap metal (units and assemblies of Read more…
I have been a long-time reader of the Modelist-Konstruktor magazine. In publications about homemade machinery I find a lot that is useful to me, and most importantly — my creative potential grows and I get the desire to design machinery myself. I am a DIY builder with experience too. Over the past few years I Read more…
FUSELAGE CONSTRUCTION. In recent issues of our magazine, a series of articles by a group of autogyro designers was published about the features of building these rotary-wing machines, about how to build autogyros, and how to fly them when towed by a boat or an automobile. In this issue we describe the fuselage construction and Read more…
Our magazine has already written more than once about Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Ural tractors, motor plows, rotary rippers, and electric mowers created in clubs by young designers. These machines are a good help both on the school plot, on the experimental plot, and in the field. The mini-tractor “Amurchonok,” described on these pages, was built Read more…
The ultra-light international Moth class dinghy — the “Moth” (fig. 1, 2) is simple in design, easy to build, and possesses all the most important qualities of a racing boat — it is fast, maneuverable, and responsive to the helm. All this makes it worth recommending as a first racing sailboat for those who dream Read more…
On the roads and cross-country tracks of Latvia, new sports microcars — buggies built at the republic’s Central Station for Young Technicians — have recently appeared. One of them, the school “Buggy-350”, was displayed at NTTM-74. These nimble, agile machines move with equal success on dirt roads, highways, and heavily rugged terrain. They are also Read more…
A familiar winter TV story is the rescue of ice-fishing enthusiasts from a drifting ice floe. Almost every year we are shown how emergency services specialists on helicopters, boats, or all-terrain vehicles save unlucky anglers. Such incidents are not uncommon on the country’s freezing bodies of water. Moreover, anglers often drive out onto the ice Read more…
A folding bicycle is nothing surprising today. However, even when folded, its dimensions are not that small, and storing it at home — let alone carrying it on a bus or tram — is not always convenient. I set out to develop a convenient folding bicycle with the smallest possible folded dimensions. I wanted it Read more…
The author of the article and the creator of the all-terrain vehicle discussed here is Boris Nikolayevich Ryzhov — a long-time acquaintance of our magazine’s readers. Photographs of the machines he built (a tracked and a six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle) were published in the magazine as early as 1990 (No. 7). But the desire to create Read more…
