Twenty years competing in competitions avtomodelisty with radio controlled models. In 1957 the first all-Union competitions participated 8 teams of about 50 cars of different classes. RC I didn’t even have enough to play three prizes. The winner then became rostovchanin N. Podporkin, created their own original scheme for the radio and received a special prize for the best technical solution. The winners entered and known in our country, the Antonov an master of sports of the USSR S. Malik. He took the second place, adapting the model aircraft radio equipment ROOM 1 on the car. By the way, and the other less fortunate participants took advantage of this universal (frankly, not very suitable for earthly conditions) equipment.
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Berth — strange, strange-looking ship, like a flat, sprawling in the width and length of the bus. We’ve finished boarding, the passengers took their seats, already given to the mooring and ship-bus, slowly perfecting the engine, away from the pier. The engine noise increased, the water around the hull bubbled hundreds of underwater keys and then…
A strange impression was produced by this letter. A strange mixture of almost fanatical faith in their cause and the categorical rejection of any other Hobbies with doubts about the correctness of the chosen path… “was the day I said to myself: “Everything. Fly! By any means” — so begins a request to the editor resident of the city of Yuzhnouralsk V. Vetrov.
About a hundred different samples microtransport techniques have been published on the pages of our magazine, was shown in the exhibitions of the pavilions of the VDNKH of the USSR and the exhibitions NTTM. It’s usually simple and safe, easy to manage micro cars, motorcycles and scooters on the basis of Bicycle and motorcycle engines and parts, various trainers and examiners for avtodelo and the rules of the road. Most of them were built in the circles of young technicians, and so available to play forces syt and Kotov taking patronage over avtogorodok and their technical equipment.
Boomerang and the figure prepared to jump a kangaroo has long been a symbol of Australia. But times change, and now on the sixth continent is much more common to see floating in the sky the glider, rather than a boomerang or frolicking on the green lawn, the kangaroo.
27 August 1957 the world has heard the TASS report about the successful test in the Soviet Union the first ever multi-stage Intercontinental ballistic missile. And on September 17 of that year at the solemn meeting in the House of Unions, devoted to the 100 anniversary from the birthday of the founder of theoretical cosmonautics K. E. Tsiolkovsky, with a large presentation was made by corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. P. Korolev. His name then did not say anything to the masses, except that the veterans recalled the newspaper line distant times of rapid development of Soviet gliding.
…Pursued by the police on the road is rapidly rushing “Citroen”. Already tried all the tricks to get away from the chase, but the police are not far behind, but will catch up. Left one last thing. And here the car suddenly POPs wings and it smoothly from the road on the eyes of the surprised police officers takes to the skies.
The wheel for the last time, pushed himself away from the strip, An-24 cool lifted her nose, the bright lights of the Voronezh airport began to rapidly fall down and in a minute disappeared into the thick cloud of turbidity. The place I was very lucky — it was just in the area of engines; breaking away from the blades vortices of evil drumming on the hull, causing it to vibrate.
…GRINDING