Georgia tourist

Georgia travelerGeorgia — the country is amazing, not just amazing, but, unfortunately, unfairly deprived of attention. Tourists in Tbilisi should visit the cable car, which immediately attracts attention, once you get into the city. Tourists often mistakenly call it a funicular. Cabin cable car will take you to one of the most popular viewpoints for a few minutes, and then you can get to the oldest landmarks of the city include the Narikala fortress.

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PATROL WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

PATROL WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONSBomber P2V NEPTUN. In the late 30-ies of the leadership of the U.S. Navy began to develop the requirements for patrol aircraft anti-submarine escort convoys and deep sea exploration. New aircraft with long range flight was to carry the weapon systems of a wide range from conventional bombs to sea mines and torpedoes. To develop for this purpose flying boat did not make sense, because its pressurized fuselage are not satisfied with the capacious bomb Bay and external weapons worsens the already poor aerodynamics of a floatplane, reducing the maximum range and speed of flight.

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TRICYCLE “FRIENDSHIP”

TRICYCLE (The end. Beginning at No. 10, 1973) In the tenth issue of the magazine, readers got acquainted with the General layout of the three-wheeled micro-car, only “Friendship” design Bykovskiy, G. Malinowski and B. Horev. Today we talk about refinement and alterations to the factory components and parts that have been applied in the construction of this interesting machine. Remember that to make their own does not make sense. Even with the appropriate machining equipment it will greatly increase the cost and complicate the work, not to mention the fact that the quality of parts made in primitive conditions, much lower than factory.

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THE LAST “AMX” FRENCH TANK OF THE DYNASTY

LAST Tank builders from different countries have sought to create a new machine jointly. In the summer of 1963, the Ministers of defense of the United States and Germany signed an agreement on joint development of main battle tank for the armies of both States on the program of the MBT (Main Battle Tank). In 1969 tests were presented prototypes of tanks, MBT-70, developed in Detroit, and in Augsburg. Although the sample was designed according to General technical requirements, they differed significantly from each other with weapons, engines, chassis. As a result, in the same year, the Alliance broke up, dispersed and tank builders, who then went their separate ways. In the US there was a tank “Abrams” in Germany – “the Leopard”: similar in their main characteristics, but at the same time.

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TABLE-FUNGUS

TABLE-FUNGUSIts round tabletop and the same support can be of different diameters depending on the purpose of table: to be coffee, chess, or stand for flowers. Here for the latter and proposed a variant of its construction by the Hungarian magazine “Earmaster”.

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Choose quality tool

Choosing a quality toolOriginal and counterfeit: don’t buy a poor quality tool. When you select the tool great a risk to run into an unscrupulous seller, and is reliable and durable products of the famous brand to buy a low-quality forgery, not only is not able to fully perform its function, but also dangerous to life and health of the user. Tampered with not only the tools, but snap to them. in case of failure to repair such a tool is practically impossible: a guarantee that the buyer expects, it does not apply, and damage is usually so severe that it is easier to throw the defective unit.

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THE POWER PLANT OF SHIP MODELS

THE POWER PLANT OF SHIP MODELSDESIGN PRINCIPLES. As you know, every self-propelled model, be it a model airplane, ship or car, has a car, and, therefore, exist for them, the laws of calculation and design can be transferred on the model, taking into account the scale only. This is the first. Secondly, any self-propelled model (like any machine) includes three elements that can be considered mandatory. What kind of elements?

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TRICYCLE “FRIENDSHIP”

TRICYCLE After publication in No. 5 of our magazine for 1972 article “Three wheels instead of four,” we received hundreds of readers ‘ letters with a request to send or publish drawings of three-wheeled micro-car, only “Friendship”, built in auto-design circle school No. 200 Timiryazevsky district of Moscow on the project of teachers Bykovskiy, G. Malinowski and B. Horev. No less — if not more — it’s letters directly to the school, where he created the first micro-car, only “Friendship”. The interest of young technicians of our country to this machine was so great that many specially came to Moscow to the Exhibition of achievements of national economy of the USSR, where it was exhibited.

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