In August 1942, the armaments Department of the land forces of the Wehrmacht developed tactical and technical requirements for a heavy tank designed in the future to replace the recently released “Fever” — Pz.VI Ausf.E (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 7, 2003). On the new machine was supposed to use the constructed in 1941 by the Krupp 88 mm KwK 43 gun with a barrel length of 71 caliber. In the fall of 1942 to the design of the tank began firm Henschel and the design office of Ferdinand Porsche, once again competing with Erwin Aders.
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In November 2001, 55 journalists from leading automobile magazines that were part of the international jury, called the PEUGEOT 307 “European car of 2002”. Has not passed also two years as the firm, building on the success of the model, released on the basis of the 307 th stylish coupe-cabriolet hardtop — PEUGEOT 307 CC.
Just a few months there at the House of pioneers the village of Elkhotovo in North Ossetia ASSR circle technical design. During this time the guys have created a garden tractor for a school site and micromatics. Now they are working on the production of 8 seater minibus and motorcycle engine 125 cm3 for off-road driving.
This model can be built in 4-6 hours. It flies well indoors and outdoors. It is designed and built model airplanes Khabarovsk regional station of young technicians. The fuselage is manufactured of pine or Linden slats cross-section 6X5 mm. To the front of the rack using thread and glue to attach the bearing screw is made of tin or aluminum. At the distance indicated in the figure, fix the hook for the rubber motor, wire Ø1 mm. Stabilizer and fin can be made of plywood 1 mm thick veneer or just cardboard. Fix them on glue, make sure there are no distortions. Of Reiki is a cross section of 4X4 mm to prepare two racks of the wing, make the slots in the fuselage and install, as shown in the figure.
When winter comes, the main individual off-road transport in much of our country be the snowmobiles. Unfortunately, they have a significant drawback in terms of comfort snowmobiles do not differ from the motorcycle, and the frost does not go far.
In a plastic closure device of the toilet tank over time, visibly worn hole under the axis of the float arm. This violated the density of the locking valve and the water continues to seep into the tank even after filling, resulting in “flooding.”
Vertical take-off fighter RYAN X-13 VERTIJET. In our day, aviation experts, it is difficult to surprise aircraft with variable thrust vectoring, or with gas rudders and the vertical take-off planes. But few people know that all these solutions were first implemented on a small experimental plane X-13 VERTUET established aviation firm Ryan in the early 50-ies of the last century.
To call to his subordinate, the modern Manager doesn’t need to pick up the phone, and even more — to get out of his office. Just press the speakerphone button intercom “Director — Secretary”, say a brief “invite to me…”, and no, that is, problems.
Ferrucio Lamborghini in his youth, after the Second world war, was fond of a remake of the serial “Fiats” in sports cars. In the early 1960-ies Lamborghini attempted to create a prestigious and expensive sports car with a V12 engine, but the car is not really stood out from the mass of machinery-classmates.