Practice Amateur autocostruzione, including my personal, shows that wagon layout with the use of wheels with tyre size 5X10 (motorized С3А) provides a very convenient and rational design of little micro-car. That is my “Mikrus”. It is stable, holds the road well, speeds up to 90 km/h the engine under the driver seat and the passenger increases the useful volume, makes the body more succinct. The interior is spacious, seats are arranged, which is convenient for overnight stay and rest. One cannot underestimate the capacious trunk: there is, for example, you can install a baby carriage, not looking. In the right corner of the trunk easy to install the battery, and in the bottom of the fuel tank from the car ZAZ-966. Made for the base, they both increase the load on the rear axle, which improves traction of the drive wheels. And convenient access to the engine: the hood folds with the seat, driver and passenger; repairing and explore without leaving the salon. For transportation of bulky goods — TV, washing machine, fridge — enough to move the back seat forward and fold the seatback or delete it. Get a small truck.
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Wheeled Buer, beach sailing, sand yacht, metromobile… All these terms refer to the same Tina of vehicles using the movement force of the wind. Designs of such “petroholod” — a great many, from year to year are added up — three wheels and four, with Latin sail and with the Bermuda arms, hard planes, reminiscent of an aircraft wing, and even with a horizontally positioned fan-like impeller anemometer.
No matter how much we have seen this picture every time it will amaze and fascinate with their uniqueness: easy flick of a switch — and just as silently as it stood, the car started and ran, picking up speed. The heart of this design — the electric motor. To it again drawn the attention of automakers and even in connection with energy problems. Do not stand aside from these searches, and Amateur designers, some of their works have been highlighted on the pages of our magazine. Today we introduce the electric car of formula D — baby, built by our reader A. Logvina from the city for his daughter called “Alyonushka”.
I’m a physics teacher and a faithful subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”. Write and assemble a binder began while still a student in 1980. Thanks to him I became one of those whom the people called “avid homebrew”. One of my first designs was a mini-tractor “Gerez”, built together with the guys from the circle of technical creativity, which was led by part-time. Mini tractor took first place in the Republican review of technical creativity of pupils. Engine — motorized С3Д installed across; the gearbox from the car GAZ — 51, rear axle — from “UAZ”, shortened. At the mini-tractor 20 gears: 16 forward and 4 backward speed from 1 to 52 km/h. Its own mass of 500 kg can pull the truck with load up to 1200 kg.
It is no exaggeration to say that the main airframe-the autogyro is the rotor. From the correctness of the profile, from weight, precision, alignment and strength depend on the performance of the gyro. However, non-motorized vehicle on tow behind the car rises only 20 – 30 m. But the flight at this altitude requires mandatory compliance with all previously stated conditions.
This town is located in the Perm region. Called Tchaikovsky. In summer lives of ordinary working life. With the onset of winter is starting to sound a special music. It does not arise immediately: the characteristic sounds are born in one area of town to another. If the musicians try out their instruments. The day came and the orchestra struck up, and will run on a special concert by local residents.
Every year, more reservoirs becomes “closed” for motor boats. What in this case do Amateurs vodnomotornyy tourism? To put their vessels on the joke? In any case! It’s time to recall the sail. Sailing rig can be a real alternative to a rattling, smoky, polluting water bodies with suspended motor.
Every year more and more intensive is the development of remote areas of the country that holds in its bosom untold wealth, so necessary to the national economy. Finding these hiding places of nature, there are numerous exploration party. They travel hundreds and thousands of miles of impassable tundra, cross bogs and swamps not freezing in the harsh winters of the river, deep snow.
The elderly with a sense of humor remember the fun of skiing with the snow slopes on primitive boats — maskoobraznym the kruglyashi of frozen in the old city of wet hay. Or noisy slopes “small bunch” on a normal sledge, from which before it was shot shafts…