
At the start, during the competition, when all the machines are in several rows lined up in front of the white line, this card is easy to get lost among the brethren. The same wheel, the usual sight for the seat and steering wheel… That’s just the engine it does not emit deafening sounds of firing, and working with a barely audible hum. The reason is simple — on the map instead of the internal combustion engine is an electric motor, powered by the familiar lead battery…


…A quiet summer evening over the water area of klaipėda seaport appeared strange flying machine: its wings were similar to a lattice, and the pilot was housed in a tiny cabin, reminiscent of a sidecar for the motorcycle, It was a new hydroplane “Duck” (Fig. 1), design B. Yu Oscines — the latter option already described in No. 4, 1975 BRO-16.
He was born and I grew up in that land of mother Russia, where the land most of the year is under a thick cover of snow, a reason those places is considered the birthplace of Santa Claus. Perhaps that is why along with General interest in engineering of particular interest to me has always evoked the snowmobile machine. To have such was my childhood dream come true. When I grew up and learned to do many things with their hands, decided to make its design. By the time I’ve not only studied the device snowmobile vehicles, but was able to critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of this technique.
Imagine: around the entrance waiting for us miniature car a nice modern shape. Let’s do a small trip. The door swings open, as usual, and gently rolled back, releasing a wide opening for planting. Installed on hinges of the seat POPs out, we get them directly from the pavement, and they can easily occupy the same position.
Upcoming XXV Congress of the CPSU will summarize the implementation of the ninth five-year development plan of national economy and chart a new rollers of Communist construction in our country. Like the baton, to pass a new five-year labor achievements of the ambitious objectives set in the Directives of the XXIV Congress of the party, and give a more powerful impetus to scientific and technical progress in all industries. transport, agriculture and construction.


The name we gave zernoproduktovy Motorboats, which is one of the young employees of our design Bureau, Igor Kosachev, has offered to invest inside of the boat “Progress” with the big company. His proposal, he explained this “Progress” can not serve everyone; after all someone want to go fishing, someone to water-ski…
Agree that when you look at this picture I recall of illustrations of sci-Fi novels, telling inpresence. Design I. Lagos from the village Donbasenergo Voroshilovgrad region, perhaps for this reason he received such a fantastic title.

In the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 11’1991 I met the description motoart — tracked snowmobile, designed by brothers Matveichuk of Zavodoukovsk Tyumen region and named them “Idea-2”. The car I liked. For me, a villager, she seemed an indispensable means of transport in winter, but as for the homebrew — it is executable, even with my poor equipment of the home workshop. And there are in it: welding machine, grinding machine, drill, Yes, the usual bench tools.