RAIN CLOSES THE WINDOW

THE RAIN COVERS THE WINDOWDarkened sky, the wind rustled the leaves, and now the first drops were informed about the start of the rain. And then you remember: “But at home I have the window open!” And as it happens, an unfortunate forgetfulness does not remain without consequences: flooded floor in the bathroom, torn curtains, broken glass.

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ONE IN TWO PEOPLE

ONE IN TWO PERSONS…He is the pilot to the bone. Telling, mechanically gestures: hands discharged turns, barrel rolls, combat turns. He knows the subtlest of the flight habits of many domestic and foreign aircraft — from the English “avrushka” to jet Il-28. But first and foremost he’s an engineer. And each episode of his eventful flight biographies “worked” on the development of a future designer. Although no exaggeration to say that the first steps in aviation, a graduate of the Bauman pilot athlete osoaviahima Vladimir Shevchenko, like his fellow flying club and Institute Sergei Korolev, once realized and formulated his design credo.

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WINGED JEEP

FLYING JEEPThe passenger plane the Yak-12. For many worldwide known aircraft designers and their teams, the road to big aviation began with the creation of a light aircraft. Often, these are the first born in the future were in the shadow of its more advanced winged fellows who have brought their creators glory. Creating successful machines have been inspired by their creators and gave them confidence in solving more complex technical problems, and the plane was often the first and last test of strength of the designer in this direction. One of the few prominent designers of our time, and throughout life remained faithful to the light aircraft was Alexander Yakovlev.

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FROM “SPIDOLY” LAB!

FROM Instruments based on the radio. Technical progress is relentless it forces us to buy all new electronic devices, and old, but usable receivers, tape recorders, record players and tape recorders had moved into the closets and attics, and then to the dump. However, enthusiastic Amateurs on a more careful attitude to an old technique, finding it different application. So old, no one needs a radio superheterodyne scheme can certainly be found almost any Amateur radio.

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GLIDER TAKES OFF FROM THE WATER

THE GLIDER TAKES OFF FROM THE WATERBRO-17…A quiet summer evening over the water area of klaipėda seaport appeared strange flying machine: its wings were similar to a lattice, and the pilot was housed in a tiny cabin, reminiscent of a sidecar for the motorcycle, It was a new hydroplane “Duck” (Fig. 1), design B. Yu Oscines — the latter option already described in No. 4, 1975 BRO-16.

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“COTTAGE” FOR NUTRIA

Becoming a pensioner, was engaged in the breeding of the nutria (swamp beavers, or coypu) and saw how it is a profitable business. With the low maintenance costs of these herbivores and also very unpretentious animals not only get delicious meat (an average of 2-3 kg of each species), no way inferior to the rabbit, nutritional value and dietary properties, but also (most importantly!) valuable fur, on the strength approaching a mink or a Fox, and wear exceeding ten “fur” of the Bunny.

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“AEROBI-100”

For the study of near-earth space in the United States since 1948, began to build rockets “Aerobe”. To date released a large number of their modifications. A two-stage rocket “Aerobi 100”, the description and drawings which we published, are very useful for modeling. It is easy to manufacture and available to the modelers for the second year of study. Its flight is quite stable and shows good sports results. It is possible to participate in competitions of any rank.

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LADA REVOLUTION

LADA REVOLUTIONThis car was first shown at the Moscow international motor show in August 2003. Race car was the prototype of the new monoclass — National racing series AVTOVAZ, designed for circle racing machines of the same model, which virtually do not compete designers and engineers, and racers.

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