THE LAST “GUNNERS” WEST

LAST The term “shipbuilding holiday” traditionally referred to as the decade that followed the Washington conference of 1922. However, that’s hardly fair: it is precisely in those years, there was rapid development of all classes of combat ships, except battleships. It is much more appropriate to apply this concept to the 50-th years of XX century. Too large a fleet at the victorious Second world war allies and the uncertainty of the task facing him has allowed naval authorities of many States of the West and the “third world” to pause and not spend extra money on upgrading its Navy. As a result, in the next two decades, almost half of the navies of the world consisted solely of English or American second hand. Well, the countries continue to build major warships in this period, can literally be counted on the fingers.

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ROCKET GLIDER I. PONOMAREVA

ROCKET GLIDER I. PONOMAREVAAmong the best athletes rocketmodeler Russia over the last three years was included the master of sports Igor Ponomarev. Two years in a row he was the winner or prize-winner of many competitions in the category of boys. There was even a medalist of the world championship of 2002 And going into the adult category, Igor said about himself — became the champion of Russia in the class of models of raketoplana (Ѕ4В) and the second prizewinner in the class of rotochutes (S9B).

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NTTM — THE VILLAGE

NTTM — VILLAGETHE CAR ROOF. For transportation of bulk cargo: flour for bakeries, cement on construction sites, fertilizers on the field — in recent years increasingly used cars with special pnevmotsitami. They are very comfortable, as they provide minimal losses during loading, unloading and transportation.

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ELECTRIC SAW

This simple saw can be processed plywood, thin wooden boards, etc. On the basis of the size of 250X150 mm are mounted the following parts: 1 — the solenoid of the screw Ø10 mm, which is wound with insulated copper wire 0.2 mm (the more turns, the greater the power of the magnet); 2 — Read more…

NORTH AMERICAN FJ-4B FURY

NORTH AMERICAN FJ-4B FURYThe development of carrier-based jet fighter with the designation F1J firm North American beginning in the years of the Second world war. It was the car with straight low wing and front air intake. First fighter in the series did not go, but he soon interested the air force leadership, which planned to use it as a front-line fighter.

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BABY GEAR

BABY GEARSearching for the correct gear for mechanisms of control model of the submarine I looked through descriptions of many designs with the aim to choose the most simple to manufacture. In the end I decided to use as a base for such a worm gear pair from the trimmer. The most suitable turned out to be multi-turn wirewound resistor type SP5-2 with a transmission ratio worm gear i=45.

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