
AS FOR THE VILLAGE WITHOUT A TRACTOR?

For transportation of large cargo by land over distances of hundreds and thousands of miles of not-yet-invented method than the railway. It accounts for in the country about two thirds of total turnover. In the ninth five-year plan to build new roads, increased capacity and capacity podvesnoy composition.
The picturesque surroundings of Novgorod, an ancient Russian city situated at the motorway Moscow — Saint-Petersburg somewhere halfway from the city to the Northern capital Wherever the eye could see, everywhere hills, forest lake, Totam here one can see houses and country towns There where potatoes and carrots grow, and mushrooms and berries to pick, fish to catch Here only paved roads is not enough.
With the best examples of technical creativity S. P. KOROVIN, designer from the city of Kumertau (Bashkortostan), readers of our magazine are already familiar. In the “photo stitch” (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 1 2000) was presented his most famous design: the plane “Visit”, children’s car, seven-seater “Orbit-1500” and the water motorcycle (jet ski). Later readers appreciated another Stanislav Petrovich development company “askor” (“modelist-Konstruktor” No. 4-5’02). Now available “Marlin” is an improved version of the watercraft, published in “Panorama”. “Marlene” is superior to its predecessor in terms of maneuverability, comfort and design.
On the waters of the Urals in recent years began to appear a catamaran out of foam. They are unsinkable, easy to operate, durable and simple to manufacture. The figure shows the design of this catamaran. Dimensions: 3750×1600 mm, plate thickness from 40 to 150 mm, the height of the float 200 im and a width of 400 mm. Weight of 1 m3 of foam plastic is about 20 kg. Plates are cut on a special fixture with a nichrome wire heated to 200-250°, or on a special machine, the design of which is described in No. 9 of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” for 1971.