To acquire a sailboat—even the most simple!—one desire is not enough. You have to go to the cost, sometimes completely devastating for the family budget. And the time to construct such a vessel takes a lot. However, there is a way—readily available and inexpensive. It is to install on a rented pleasure craft rowing boat (for example, type “Mullet” or “Trout”) a simple improvised sailing arms. Do not, of course, be expected from such a “yacht” high speed and Lavrovich qualities. This is possible only if a radical change in the structure of the boat and improved its facilities, including a retractable centerboard or verzemi.
The Rover was designed and custom-made joint stock company “Sa-ratowanie”: here is a badly needed vehicle for the delivery of operational outreach to places of accidents on power lines. These lines are, as usual, draw where on the roads to speak of. In good weather only army GAZ-66 is still able to build there track. In the offseason, almost as in the song: only helicopter can fly. Mari Rover turned out to be what we need. For four years he has served the energy sector and still on the go. This was confirmed by A. P. Smolkin, head of the fuel and transport service of JSC “Saratovenergo”. Not once, not twice “Wolverine” rescued repairmen. And not just for work but also for hunting and fishing. On the question of what the design drawbacks revealed during exploitation, Alexander only then said: “have more powerful Engine… at least from “zaporozhtsa”.
The term recumbent, all wheeled vehicles muscle-powered, is used in our country since the mid-1970s On the recumbent Vita Kharkiv J. Stepchenko, as the first swallow of a new kind of vehicles, “M-K” told in No. 7 of 1976. The rest of the world so-called practical design intended for passenger transport and provided with a casing-body.
When going on a long journey, skier, usually relying only on its own strength. However, it is possible to summon the wind, erecting for this purpose a sailing ship. To collect such towing is a snap, using weapons from the sail Board mast, hicok-wishbone and sail with a set of lat However, all this can be made independently. To start work conveniently with wheels, pre-arranging a couple of cameras from the truck or wheeled tractor, their dimensions will depend on the size of wheel hubs and wheels.
The wind has always been a symbol of impermanence, and attempts to transform its energy into electrical energy has led often to results that are not very encouraging. Indeed, everything you expect from the source of electrical energy stability: clicked the switch and turned on the light. And the wind, alas, changeable. However, to make it a reliable source of electricity possible, to use already well developed scheme with intermediate energy storage battery.
In the mid 80-ies on television in many countries was widely advertised a small, high-speed, extremely maneuverable motorized vessels under the General title of “jet”: “jet-ski”, “waterbot”, “jet ski”. They immediately won the hearts of fans of water sports, surpassing lovers, windsurfers, water skiing and certain types of water-motor sports.
Dreams everyone has their own. Who about what, and Sergey Rudenko, an employee of city station of young technicians, in Slutsk, Minsk region, dreams of a children’s technology Park. And not only cherishes this dream, but slowly takes it. Top aides to him in this—the children, all the surrounding kids. Together they create the basis for future Park equipment. At the teen club Amateur designers “Original”, which Sergey Dmitrievich runs on a voluntary basis, already built about a dozen unusual machines: from moped to hydrometallation. The purpose of all machines the same: to serve children’s interests. So the young craftsmen design themselves, build themselves, themselves and ride. It all started with aquapad “Dolphin”, which S. D. Rudenko came up to summer at the lake the boys had fun.
Moscow musician D. T. KUDRYAKOV among Amateur designers known as the author of a unique car is amphibious “Triton” — one of a kind vehicle that is registered simultaneously in two state inspections: car (GAI) and for small vessels (GIMS). Our regular readers may recall the publication of “Planing… car” (“modelist-Konstruktor” No. 5 of 1996), containing quite a full description of the construction of the “Triton”. In it the author shared his approach to solving complex technical problems, which allowed him to create a vehicle equal in their performance on land and on water.
This small trailer was designed and manufactured when our family received a plot of land for gardening in the suburbs of Cheboksary. Immediately there is a need to transport various goods. At that time I had only the Minsk motorcycle and some old nodes from scooter “Tourist”. Little motorcycle and need a small light trailer. So its frame is welded from steel tubes of rectangular cross section, and reinforced body made of duralumin thin-walled tubes and sheets, securing the wings with the help of argon-arc welding. Then these two main nodes are interconnected by screws M5.