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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ROADSTER FOX

ROADSTER FOXThe design intent of the car-Roadster FOX was born in 2004 from his youthful ideas to build an open sports car with an original appearance to satisfy personal design ambitions. During my school years I was engaged in self-similar sports, a multiple winner of the Championships of Russia. Studied at Yaroslavl Polytechnic University at the Department of internal combustion engines. There’s also graduated from the graduate school. Now I’m chief engineer at a firm which deals with composite materials (fiberglass and carbon fiber worked in high school, being a modeller). Design various non-standard equipment.

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CHAMPION CARDS

CHAMPION CARDSCircle carting of the Palace of pioneers of the Bauman district of Moscow one of the leading in our country. The team of the Palace is constantly among the strongest kart USSR. But a good reputation in the circle is responsible not only for his sporting achievements. He is known for his homemade racing micro cars. It would seem that anyone today could surprise card build in any more or less equipped laboratories. However “kruglikovsky” (by the name of the head of the circle) of the machine compares favorably to similar.

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OBEDIENT SCREW

COMPLIANT SCREWMany readers, building a snowmobile and a boat with propellers, in his letters to the editor are asked to tell how the variable-pitch propellers and what advantages they possess. In response to that request, the published material prepared by the consultant of the public KB, “M-K” on snowmobiles I. N. By juvenalian.

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RECUMBENT MADI

RECUMBENT MADIInvented and built unusual to our eyes the car of the students of the Moscow automobile and road Institute N. Belov, N. Dubinin, Yu Medovikov, A. Ortega-Gil and O. Khokhlova, under the leadership of Professor A. Narbut. In may 1983 they moved their offspring to the street, right on Leningradsky Prospekt. Drove along the facade of the MADI. The reaction of passers-by was clear — a genuine interest.
Central television in the program “This you” gave the opportunity to millions of fans of technical creativity to see design students and get acquainted with its device. And for those who are interested in “MADI-BC1” more deeply, we offer the description and drawings, prepared by one of its founders, now a graduate student Yuri Medovikov.

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MOTOR FOR INFLATABLE BOAT

MOTOR TO AN INFLATABLE BOATThe basis of the motor taken screwdriver “Leader”. Seals (2 EA.) taken from AUDI: take a piece of tube that was part of it seals, removed the cartridge and turned the only piece of hardware under the internal size of the seals and fastening screw. Screw homemade 280х70 mm, bent in the vise and drilled more or less on the eye as a flange for one screw. When dressed flange with seals on the axle, wrapped with any fabric and impregnate any paint in several layers. Bushings on a “leg up” – saylenbloki with “Fields”, inner tube. At hand was only the welding, so everything is cooked. The second screw was made by gas welding from sheet metal s of 0.5 mm is bent on the pipe hub, and the blades are soldered bronze.

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ONE-WHEELED TRACTOR

ONE-WHEEL TRUCKCompactness, maneuverability and good traction — the undoubted advantages of the one-wheeled tractor created at the station of young technicians in the city of Novotroitsk. They managed to obtain, using the unusual tillers layout of the “wheel — motor”, which provides a minimum unit size, and ease of transmission.

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