SWAMP OF THE WALKING TRACTOR

On the website www.lunohodov.net homebrew under the name Lech is double swamp buggies on wheels with low pressure tires (large diameter camera — 1200×350 mm) with the engine from the imported tillers. Frame — breakable bridges — “Zhiguli”, without brackets. Gear shift — “VAZ”. Gearbox and clutch replace V-belt transmission. Only on the tillers, was Read more…

MINI TRACTOR FROM LITHUANIA

MINI-TRACTOR FROM LITHUANIAThe Internet has no boundaries and it brings people together. Especially like-minded people. On the website www.minitraktor.Ork.ru user under the name сеnteur from Lithuania is presenting its all-wheel drive mini-tractor with “broken” frame, which has been in operation for twenty years. The engine it — UD-2M. Gear shift — from a motorcycle “Dnepr” and 2-speed gearbox with neutral position — from the old blower to provide mini tractor with eight speeds forward and two back from 1 km/h to 17 km/h.

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AIRCRAFT WITH THEIR HANDS

THE PLANE WITH THEIR OWN HANDS1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
1.1. These “General technical requirements” (OTT) apply to all aircraft (LA) Amateur-built requirements of the technical Commission for examination to obtain permission to fly in clubs and competitions.
 
1.2. The technical Commission is guided by the data of OTT as a mandatory minimum requirements and, if necessary, to clarify or Supplement the individual requirements of these OTT.

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DINGHY FOR TOURISTS

THE DINGHY FOR THE TOURIST“Eureka” is the Dinghy to the simplified construction, designed for home fabrication technology. The hull of the Dinghy — wooden, lightweight, with the lining membrane type. It consists of three bead frames, keel and four stringers. Midel-frame — reinforced, as it mounted mast and additional parts. The mast of the dural tube or wooden, swivel. The sail is a Latin, with a mainsail area of about 3.2 m2. Additional parts of plywood hinged in the dural tube, sealed at the midship frame.

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FLYING AT A HEIGHT OF INCHES

FLIGHT TO THE HEIGHT OF CENTIMETERSIn the Soviet and foreign scientific and popular journals have repeatedly reported Nicoleta apparatus-ekranoplan, including the Soviet pilot the rescue boat amphibious ESKA-1. This car is Amateur-built successfully last cycle of flight tests, designed by Moscow engineers Gramatzki A., E. Grunin, S. Chernyavskaya, Y. Gorbenko and N. Ivanov. Flight tests were conducted by an engineer A. Gramatzki, and then the pilot Baluev A.. ESKA-1 was exhibited on one of the Central exhibitions NTTM was awarded a bronze medal VDNH USSR, and its creators — signs of the winners of the NTTM.

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THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TRANSPORT

THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TRANSPORTWhat do you notice? They again begin the dog more likely to catch the eye in the yards, on the streets of cities and towns, rural roads — nimble and fast two-wheeled machine with silver spokes. One time, at least in large cities — bikes were everywhere and, it seemed, irrevocably supplanted by multiplying by leaps and bounds with cars. Played a role and decreasing size of modern apartments. But the architects revised the plan, added to the rooms, balconies and loggias, and the designers created a folding bikes — and as a result today we can talk about the revival of popularity of this individual mode of transport.

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BRO-11M – STEP INTO THE SKY

BRO-11M - STEP INTO THE SKYDid you know that a lot of aircraft Amateur-built are based on BRO-11M – glider initial training famous Lithuanian aircraft designer B. I. Oscines. Very easy to manufacture and reliable in operation, designed on the basis of classical schools of design of aircraft of the 1930-ies, the glider won the sympathy not only of beginners glider, but Amateur aviators, who saw in the design of the BRO-11 M, and its elements useful for the creation of Amateur gliders and airplanes. While some used the scheme of the airframe as a whole, others copied the design of the wing, a third of its original control system… Word, BRO-11M was a kind of tutorial of novice aviators.

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SIMPLICITY PLUS RELIABILITY

SIMPLICITY PLUS RELIABILITYSimplicity of design “Harp” is perhaps unique. In the car a total of six main parts: frame, engine, rear axle, wheels, ski with the steering rod and steering wheel. Reliability and simplicity of the snowmobile complies with the standards that apply to vehicles intended for Autonomous runs over a vast and desolate regions of the Arctic. “The harp” easy to disassemble and in the back of a truck or in the baggage car to transport to the launch site, and there is to collect hours. and a half and to travel.

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BROOM ON WHEELS

BROOM ON WHEELSIn the “M-K” No. 4, 1982, an article was published in which there was a talk about a club for young technology house management № 8 of the city of Vitebsk, about the fun and useful machines that are created by its members. Among the most original devices was mentioned and mechanical sweeping machine MPM-1.

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