The experimental carrier-based fighter XF5U-1. In the 1940s, the American engineer Charles Zimmerman has created a unique aircraft aerodynamic configuration, which still continues to surprise not only for its unusual appearance, but also performance For their unique appearance, he has received numerous nicknames, among them such as “Flying parachute”, the “Flying pancake” and “Skimmer Zimmerman” Modern historians of aviation klassificeret this aircraft as the first fighter short takeoff and landing.
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The article “He invented nutrit” (1975, No. 5) was very interested in me. I came up with a small improvement schemes nutrida. If the plane of rotation of gears attached to a horizontal tilt of 30-45 degrees, the efficiency of the whole engine will increase significantly.
Luxury car with four-seater body “convertible” — a Museum piece. Through the entire radiator inscription: “Hispano-Suiza”. In the top tank of the radiator you can see another emblem. It is also well known — “Skoda”. But… the car is dated 1924, while the Czechoslovak automobile factory “Laurin-Klement” only in 1925 and received the name “Skoda”. And another “but”. On trafaretka under the hood “of the Spanish-Suiza” you may find the word “škoda plzeň” and “Laurin-Klement” (now Skoda) was in the city of mladá Boleslav. Maybe brand mark of the company that manufactured the body, anything to clarify? Here it is. The inscription on it: “Erdmann und Rossi. Berlin.” But the body for “Spanish-Suiza” made mainly by the French company…
In this issue we introduce young innovators, participants of operation “the Introduction” with an unusual method of drying developed in Nikolaev. At our request about it, say the authors of this new technology, which not only shortens the production cycle, but also provides high quality wood.
The space is calling the boys. Today almost every student dreams of becoming an astronaut as well as in the distant 30-ies of their peers dreamed of aviation. And like a decade ago, the guys are preparing for the upcoming tournaments. Learn in flying circles a theory to build complex models-copies “Union”, sport rockets, participate in competitions and contests. Only the all-Union competition “the Space” conducted by our magazine, gathers every year hundreds of young connoisseurs of space. The opening of this article a series of articles on rocket modeling, the editors hope that they will be an additional tool for club Directors and their participants.
The carrier rocket “Cyclone-3”. Early 60-ies of the last century was marked not only by competition in space between the USA and the USSR, but a nuclear arms race. The first examples of Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), the Atlas in the US and R-7 in the USSR did not have a high readiness for use as an oxidizing agent with a low boiling liquid oxygen. The military of both countries felt the need to be armed with missiles that could be in constant readiness.
Well, I wonder are the guys changes and the free time in the extended-day groups at schools, where equipped your arcade room with a variety of devices to compete on agility, quickness, speed and skill. Some examples of such devices offer today to our readers-the students of master of sports of the USSR S. Glaser.
Anyone who has seen the work of plasterers, no doubt paid attention to how they solution is applied to a finished surface: be sure to scale, like “prespectiva” it to the wall. Then the solution stronger to grips with the surface, and the layer turns is harder.
KHARKOV AUTOMOBILE AND ROAD INSTITUTE STUDENT DESIGN BUREAU OF HIGH-SPEED CARS. Scientific supervisor — the rector of the Institute, associate Professor B. V. Reshetnikov. Chief designer -honored master of sports of the USSR V. K. Nikitin.
