FLYING UNDER THE ROOF

FLYING UNDER THE ROOFFor many school model aircraft clubs create room flying models is the only available form of modeling. Judge for yourself: the season of the competition model, as a rule, coincides with summer vacation, and autumn, winter and spring start model is quite difficult weather conditions. At the same time any sports or Assembly hall is a great arena for competition in the class of low-speed models with resi-nomotion. The design of the latter — the process is no less fascinating.

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ELECTRONIC EAR

ELECTRONIC EARCheck slabovidimym acoustic signals is of great practical importance. This: fault diagnosis of internal combustion engines; search for places of leakage of gas from the damaged pipeline networks; early detection of diseases of internal organs; organization of acoustic communication and alarm systems; capture seismography, noise of different origin, including sounds of nature (birds singing, for example) and many more.

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OVEN ON… SPRINGS

OVEN TO... LEAF SPRINGSIn Russia the Banya is not only a place of bathing, “hospital”, a place of rest, but part of the culture. Well, about the garage and say no is the individual a man’s world! And one of the main things in such constructions – the oven! It is very important that it was convenient to use and that it gave more heat.

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A STANDARD NATO TANK

NATO STANDARD TANKSince the emergence of tanks as a kind of weapon in their design a special mark was put “duel armor and shells”. By the end of the Second world war, showed a certain balance. One of the original criteria in the development of new war machines was the requirement that the tank armor is not penetrated by armor-piercing projectiles of his own gun. In this approach, and were all post-war tanks of the so-called first generation.

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OUR “VICTORY”

OUR A Russian passenger car GAZ M20 “Pobeda”. This particularly civilian car was designed during the great Patriotic war. For a future peaceful life, she produced and assembled at the factory, almost completely destroyed by Nazi bombers and nevertheless producing light tanks T-60 and T-70 self-propelled guns SU-76M and armored cars BA-64. Finally, this machine was created by people who in this difficult time found the strength to work on the post-war future, then seemed incredibly far away…

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KAMOV Ka-50

KAMOV Ka-50His first flight of the day anti-tank helicopter the Ka-50 made in 1982. When designing the machine was seen as an alternative to the American helicopter Ah-64 “Apache”, and the testing process successfully passed the contest in which his opponent was an attack helicopter Mi-28.

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