In our city of Kingisepp there was a gliding club ROSTO, where I worked as a pilot instructor since 1996. The club had two light aircraft and four gliders. But they were all far from new. ROSTO no longer allocated money for the purchase of new aircraft or repair of old ones. The aircraft equipment Read more…
Flipping through the 1975 edition of Modelist, I noticed an article in No. 3 about the Cheburashka car, built by young technicians from Tbilisi. I liked the car and decided to make one for my kids. But, taking the “Cheburashka” as a basis, I still had to assemble the little car in my own way Read more…
The car in question was created as a cargo vehicle to help survive in our difficult times. My son and I made the car for almost a year. I would like to express my gratitude to the inspector of state technical supervision R.L. Markin. He is also an avid DIYer and has made many things Read more…
By the time of writing these lines, I had built five catamarans of various designs. My friend Anatoly Pavlovich Ignatchenko took an active part in the design, construction and testing of these watercraft. This is not to say that none of them satisfied me. The catamaran with inflatable floats performed well both on the reservoirs Read more…
Oleg Starikov, an amateur car designer-enthusiast from the village of Ostrovtsy near Moscow, is known to all local technology lovers (and they can safely include the majority of the male population of the village, young and old), who jokingly often call him “Samodelkin” or “Kulibin”. This name is also familiar to readers of our magazine Read more…
Winter operation of all-terrain vehicles in the northern regions of our country places a number of specific requirements on it. So, to reduce resistance to movement, the machine must have minimal weight or exert little pressure on the supporting surface and at the same time, to provide the necessary traction, have good adhesion of the Read more…
The Pegasus automobile studio, which builds cars of the same name, was founded in Yaroslavl in 2003 by Vadim Shustrov. At that time, he had just graduated from Yaroslavl Polytechnic University. But he had experience of close communication with the guys from the MAMI and NAMI design bureaus. He was inspired to create his own Read more…
Any snowmobile, including amphibians, has a relatively low load-carrying capacity, and therefore their use is fully justified only under certain operating conditions, which will become clear from what is said below. Our amphibian is a combination of a pleasure boat and a ski. The shape of its bottom is designed for planing on water and Read more…
It is not easy to surprise residents of the city of Tolyatti with a new car. On their streets they are the first to meet promising models from the Volzhsky Automobile Plant and new products from foreign companies. But wherever the miniature yellow car with the cheerful name “Kolobok” appears, it invariably attracts the attention Read more…
The FOX roadster project was born in 2004 from a youthful idea to build an open sports car with an original appearance to satisfy personal design ambitions. Back in my school years, I was involved in car racing and was a multiple winner of Russian championships. He studied at the Yaroslavl Polytechnic University at the Read more…
