“Dear editors!
Read in issue No. 7 article “Reinvent the wheel!”, long thought, what I’d like to see him. The picture I painted your project…”
Dima Kovalev, 13 years old, Avtomobilist, Vladivostok
“I read an interesting article about bikes. It is very good that the magazine raises the question of their modernization. I both hands “for”.
A. Brilev, electrical fitter, Kirovsk, Murmansk region.
“I was interested in the article about bikes, and I decided to fill in the form “M-K”…
Valery Ivanov, a student GPTU, Kurgan
In recent decades, the pollution and poisoning of the waters of the World ocean reached unprecedented proportions and has increased so much that there is an urgent need in creation of special technical means for oil collection from water surface.
“In Moscow on VDNH USSR successfully held the exhibition NTTM-76. I saw a lot of interesting, but especially liked the tricycle for the elderly. It is created in Kharkov, there is, in my opinion, in a single copy. Therefore, I would like to know more about the technical features and innovations applied in its design”.
Thousands of boats and boats, Amateur-built project of OKB “M-K”, travel through the water spaces of rivers, lakes and even seas of our vast country. It’s hugely popular “Muscovite”, “Volzhanka”, “Arrows”, “Mermaid”, “Typhoon” and “Ruslan”. The experienced eye specialist immediately identify them by their characteristic profile and landing on the water, allowing almost the entire speed range to go without a wave. But in recent years an increasing number of “hybrids” of boats and boats, born in OKB “M-K”. This is the result of a creative initiative, attempts on their own to adapt projects to local conditions, the search for new materials and technologies ensuring high quality products.
(Continued. Beginning at No. 10 in 1975.)
Among the boats built by Amateurs for their own projects, occupy a special place, as we now say, a “mini-design”. To them, undoubtedly, belongs and the boat is”baby”, created by our reader from Kiev N. G. Tarasyuk. A sheet of plywood, a few pine planks, half a kilo of casein glue or epoxy is all that is needed for its production. The capacity of “baby” is such that allows the two to take a little walk, to fish and hunt. The boat sits perfectly on krasivom the trunk of the car, and for transportation provided manually miniature truck on one wheel from scooter (size 12(1/2)x2(3/4).
“It is easier to pull than push” — the ancients said. Indeed, what if leading and control functions to combine in one wheel and make it no pushing and pulling! In the classical scheme of two-wheeled vehicles (motorcycles, mopeds, scooters, etc.) the rear wheel is usually the leading, front of the same control.
“In the past I Aviator, wrote the Director of station of young technicians Ufa refinery P. S. Astashkin, and for obvious reasons I wanted to build a snowmobile that resembled a plane. After all, the best part of his life to aviation started at the flying club, finished in guards red banner assault regiment, which took place from the Volga to Berlin.
The advantages of a velomobile compared to a bike known to all. First things first- it is resistance, and thanks to her and comfort (although relative) is also much higher. I want to share with readers design another simple and compact recumbent. In the feature I want to include the word “universal” because it allows the drive to connect to the work in addition to legs and arms.
With the construction of a cable-chair lift (I think, the largest in the country) the natural boundary of beaver log became the most popular place of winter recreation for residents of Krasnoyarsk. At the weekend come here for old and young: skiing, sleigh rides, various improvised projectiles to be launched from the picturesque steep slopes.