SOARING ABOVE THE WAVES

SOARING OVER THE WAVESSOARING OVER THE WAVESThe hovercraft is. Building a vehicle that could move on both land and water, was preceded by a familiarity with the history of the discovery and the creation of original amphibious machines, air cushion (WUA), the study of their fundamental devices, comparison of various designs and patterns. To this end, I visited a lot of Internet sites enthusiasts and creators of WUAs (including foreign), met with some of them in person.

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AMPTRAC “OB”

ANTITRACK ANTITRACK If you try to list all the known constructive scheme of ATVs, that’s probably not enough of this page — after all, their number comparable to the number of Amateurs involved in all-terrain equipment. In this list you will find the place and motonarty, and snowmobiles, and apparatus on the air cushion… And as it turns out, it is harmless to look back and see whether all the “care” of the oldest known structures? Did a reader of our magazine A. Kremnev, designing all-terrain vehicle-amphibious “Ob”.

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CHILDREN’S RECUMBENT

CHILDREN'S RECUMBENTI’m a longtime subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” — since 1968. However in the past two years, wrote out “Technique—youth”, but now once again gave preference to your journal. When my daughter was little, one of the publications engineer S. Kovalev “Recumbent for kid” (No. 7/1990) for her I made a similar machine only the materials and components used the ones that had, and even for greater stability and increased track database of home-made wheels.

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SCOOTER-BABY

SCOOTER-BOYI have designed a small moped in contrast to the series sits in the passenger Elevator. This is probably one of its main advantages because the two-wheeled kid’s (educational, by the way, the same speed as the “Riga-7”) can be “parked” on the balcony of a city apartment.

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ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE OF JUNKS

“For ten years this versatile motorcycle is my indispensable assistant, shares with us A. Belyaev from the village of dzhonka Khabarovsk region. In winter the rear wheel I replaced the skis, and instead put another front, spiked”. The machine is maneuverable, has a good permeability. Its length — 2000 mm width — 920 mm; the Read more…

MINI TRACTOR

MINI-TRACTORBuilt a similar machine I used. But this is considered the most successful. Layout scheme it is similar to a tractor “Belarus”. The engine of the motorcycle “Ural”. Electrical sectiontwo, but modified Instead of the standard ignition circuit breaker has two—one for each cylinder. Ignition coils B-110 also became two.

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