SURFING ON ASPHALT

SURFING ON ASPHALTIn recent years, increasingly popular among young people acquires a new exciting sport, something akin to the classic surf art of the slide with the crest of the wave on the Board. It is also used Board, however, somewhat smaller. At its bottom secured four rubber-coated roller. As you’ve probably guessed, the slide on this Board with ocean waves and asphalt, using the natural slope.

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AND ONE, AND TWO

ONE, TWOGeorge S. khokhlachov — military retiree, he was 77 years old. My entire adult life, he enthusiastically engaged in technical creativity: innovative work, radio, photos and much more. In their tireless search for homebrew regularly refers to the publications in scientific and popular journals, including the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. One of his last works G. S. khokhlachov decided to present the readers of our magazine: “the Last two years, I was fascinated by the design of the recumbent. From the book A. S. Popolove “let’s invent a recumbent” as a prototype of the selected “Springmail” N. Kudrin and V. Schipacheva. The frame design and General arrangement have not undergone significant changes, but the drive turned out, from my point of view, original and, I think, may interest the readers of the magazine and fans of velomobiles”.

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“GRASSHOPPER” WITH MOTOR D-6

Increasingly, in an editorial post meet the voluminous packages of drawings and descriptions of improvised microvesicles. Their fundamental difference from development of previous years — a successful combination in the construction standard and improvised units. The second important detail — the sharp improvement in appearance, a bold design decision.

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MOTOVILOVYM

MOTOFLOORI’m a longtime reader and a regular subscriber of your magazine. Send in edition of a photo made by me Motovilova, which often make field trips to set the mood… Motofloor, which was called “Shaitan-Arba”, produced from aggregates and a old moped and bicycles. The feature of structures is that both the rear (napadovska) the wheels of Motovilovka leading, and the right is driven in rotation by the engine D6, and the left pedal, through a separate chain drive.

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IN THE SKY — “ALBATROSS”

IN THE SKY — IN THE SKY — To create a device is simple, inexpensive to perform and at the same time with high performance — such is the aim of gliders. We offer our readers the description is very promising glider “Albatros” open class, created by Moscow engineer A. Z. by rabanim in early 1978. This device has been widely tested and has a high aerodynamic qualities. From other phones open class “Albatross” stands simple design (all tube frame straight), in combination with precise profiling of the dome, which provides pre-curved armor combined type (front — hard, back — elastic). The frame of the Albatross allows you to apply domes of different shapes and size without any alterations and additional adjustments.

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SIT DOWN, LET’S RIDE!

“Together cheerfully to walk…” — sung in the nursery rhyme. And go, of course, much more interesting. This gave me the idea to make a children’s bike side trailer. He also increases the stability of the machine. Trailer frame made of steel tube 13,5×2,8 mm, frame passenger seat — aluminum with an outer diameter of Read more…

TRAILER “COMPROMISE”

TRAILER With the approaching holiday period, many tourists (especially family) start to think about how and where they will Park and ride to live at the camp or on wheels, equipped with machine devices to sleep, or just in the tent. There are other, so to speak related, problems. For example, drinking water supplies in transit and at rest, the sanitary arrangements, lighting system, device, nutrition, etc. the Best solution is to build individual camper with a universal hitch that allows you to tow it as a private car and associated transport.

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UNDERWATER GUNSHOT

UNDERWATER FIREARMSpearfishing in waters with complex bottom relief and limited transparency of water has its own characteristics: no time to restore the gun, nowhere to maneuver. Rifle, currently available in the sale, for such conditions uncomfortable. Which is preferable underwater guns. Of the known types of such weapons is most suitable — capsule. Their main advantage is that when fired the harpoon at the impulse of several hundred kilograms, in contrast to the guns of other systems where the force on the harpoon does not exceed tens of kilograms. Accordingly vary the speed of the harpoon. The advantages of cap and ball pistols can be attributed to the ease of loading.

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