THE LAST OF THE FAMILY FOUR

THE LAST OF A FAMILY OF FOURThe four-door PEUGEOT 407 sedan 2004. The last few years under the heading “Showroom” almost every year there are publications about the car company Peugeot — during this time, the readers had become acquainted with practically all new models of the company — PEUGEOT 206, PEUGEOT 307, PEUGEOT 607… AND now in our next publication — the story of the new PEUGEOT 407.

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THROWING OUT FOAM

THROWING FOAMThrowing gliders are very popular among novice modelers. The fact that the technological and constructive simplicity, these miniature models have performance of more complex models. Miniature aircraft when you start the cast can climb more than 20 meters, they held steady in the “thermals” and sometimes depart quite far from the start.

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“ROMNET”

Resident of the city of Romny, Sumy region A. Zinenko reports motonartah “Romney”. “Motor scooter “Tula 200″ allows to reach the speed of 25 km/h. Motonarty very happy, — says A. Zinenko, during the entire winter they never me” did not disappoint”.

“Gird-09”

“Gird-09” — the first Soviet experimental rocket, the forerunner of the space rockets of our time. It was created in the Gird (Group of study of reactive motion) under the leadership of S. P. Korolev by the project of the head of the 2nd engineering brigade M. K. tihonravova.

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THE LAST WORD ACOUSTIC

THE LAST WORD ACOUSTICSTHE LAST WORD ACOUSTICSAnd so, becoming finally the owner of a high quality amplifier (see “M-K” № 7, 8 in 1975), you’d decide: “is now the Case for small: not enough speakers only sound”. Not shelving them, you go to the nearest radio shack, and found there a large variety of audio products, happen to be in a quandary. And what actually to choose?

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THE MOST ELEGANT

THE MOST ELEGANTFlying boat MDR-6 (Che-2). So say the historians of aviation, Soviet flying boat MDR-6 design Igor V. Chetverikova was one of the most elegant production of the Soviet seaplanes. Its clean aerodynamic shape and streamlined contours of the fuselage talked about the desire of the designer to create an aircraft that combines high speed and greater range. In fact, when creating the MDR-6 was used the experience of the most advanced aviation companies, created flying boats in the mid 30-ies of the last century. Elegant aircraft has left an appreciable trace in the history of Soviet Russia, and the threat of war and, consequently, the growing need to land the aircraft did not allow him to become the most massive flying boat of the Soviet Navy.

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GAZ-14 “CHAIKA”

GAZ-14 Gorky automobile plant in the postwar period in addition to building trucks. middle class car “Victory”, and then “Volga” was produced and Executive cars, the first of which was the six-GAZ-12 ZIM (full name of the factory in the time — Gorkovskii automobile plant named after Molotov) release 1950. Car the item is constantly improving, to replace the Winter came “the Seagull” — first GAS-13, and then the GAZ-14. The last modification can be considered as the best Executive car Gas. The car GAZ-14 “Chaika” release of 1977 was designed according to the scheme “sedan”, that is, without internal partitions in the interior, which in limousines separates the passenger compartment from the cabin of the driver. The car had three rows of seats, with two seats in the second row were folding.

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UNDER THE NATO STANDARD

UNDER THE NATO STANDARDIn early 70-ies of XX century views on the use of surface naval forces has changed significantly. In the West, only one country — the United States continued to rely on shock aircraft carrier connections. The European partners of the Americans within NATO to follow the example of Washington did not make sense: first, it was unaffordable, and secondly, their doctrine assumed that the main theatre of war the third world war will be the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic. under the guise of coastal aviation.

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COMMAND CHANDELIER

COMMANDED THE CHANDELIERThe majority of apartments have internal wiring is three wires, one of which is zero, and the other two are derived for the switch. In the slot of the switch there are three wires, two for the chandelier and one of phase. This combination in petrokova the chandelier only four possible combinations: 0; 2; 3; 5 (lamp).

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