AIR TAXI

AIR TAXIThe aircraft L-200 “MORAVA”. In the mid-1930s in the Czech Kunovice in Uhersky Gradiste for the company “Avia” started construction of a new factory and airfield Construction of the enterprise was not completed because of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by fascist Germany in March 1939.

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WE CATCH THE MOMENT OF IGNITION

CATCH THE TIMINGMotorists know how important it is for diesel internal combustion engines proper installation of the moment of ignition — the ignition spark of the spark fuel in the cylinder before the end of the compression stroke. In theory it should occur exactly at the end of this cycle. In practice, use a small spark advance below the maximum dissipation was carried out at the beginning of the next measure — extension. Otherwise you will not get far: the motor is getting “greedy”, but “pulls” very bad.

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THE GUN, FACING THE ROAD

THE GUN, FACING THE ROADAsphalt streets of towns and villages, even distant ribbon of highways — all of them like a layer cake, if you look in the context of: roadbed, sand cushion, bed concrete, asphalt. Each day of the five-year plan adds to existing roads new kilometers. And builders have a special road test: how firmly Packed surface, is it willing to stand under the infinite load of the modern transportation?

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THE ENGINE FOR ALL OF THE ELEMENTS

ENGINE FOR ALL ELEMENTSOR “15 HORSES”, WHICH WEIGH 12 POUNDS. In the range of domestic internal combustion engines which can be guided to create all-terrain vehicles Amateur designers, there are still no models working volume of 125 cm3, with sufficient specific capacity and acceptable specific weight (about 0.8—0.9 kg per horsepower). Attempts to adapt motorcycle engines — the M1A and the like — associated with a time consuming job to remove the gearbox and rework the ignition system to more easy and reliable. But if you have a good engine class 125 cm3 would increase immeasurably the possibility of creating light planes, ekranolyot and gliders.

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EVEN CHANDRAGADI

EVEN THUNDERGODEVEN THUNDERGODOn the shore of the sea of Okhotsk, far from the regional center — the city of Magadan, located North of the village of Evensk. There are still no good roads, just on the outskirts of the tundra, hills. The main vehicle here ATVs, helicopters and planes.

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THE FOG CREATES A SPEED

THE FOG, GIVING BIRTH TO SPEEDThe boat standing at the dock, nothing attracted attention. Except that instead of a outboard motor on it was a propulsion system with a propeller of relatively small diameter at the gliders it is usually much more. Engine, who worked on small gas gained momentum, howled, n suddenly the plane screw threw himself from a dense foggy cloud. The glider, dramatically picking up speed, reached the redan, and after a couple of minutes disappeared from view, leaving behind a trail of slowly falling.

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