WITCHED

WITCHEDSkis kept slipping off… Leaning on a stick, he made a hesitant step forward, but only tried to pull foot slipped, and I had to start all over again. I waved to him, and, intending to help, was to stomp your feet, succeeding leisurely “ladder” to “tree”. But at this moment his leg again. slipped and almost tknuvshis nose in the snow, he moved out of the middle of the mountains.

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AN UNUSUAL BUT SIMPLE

AN UNUSUAL BUT SIMPLEFor many years he was a subscriber to “Modeller-designer”, learned from your magazine a lot of useful and thanks to him “crush” on the bike (velomobile) theme. But to make own design was only in later years, after retirement. Now I go to this unusual crew (see photo), surprised his fellow citizens and gain of energy and health.

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SAWS FLYWHEEL

SAWS... THE FLYWHEELModels — the design tender. And Reiki it requires mainly fine. The cross section of 1X1 mm is probably the most common workpiece. Their production is significantly easier if you use our circular saw with manual transmission. A small sawmill “in the teeth” the thin rail, and the cleanliness of the cut is such that further processing is not required. This is achieved due to the very thin cutting tool, disc cutter with a thickness of 0.2 mm and a diameter of 32, 40 or 50 mm.

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THE LAST FIGHTER ALEXANDER KARTVELI

THE LAST FIGHTER ALEXANDER KARTVELISupersonic tactical fighter-bomber of the US air force Republic F-105 Thunderchief. Supersonic tactical fighter-bomber custom development F-105 Thunderchief (eng. the Thunderer) company Republic became the first aircraft of this type—all combat vehicle of similar purpose were merely modifications of the classic fighters. In addition, the Thunderchief was a single of the largest single-engine fighter-bombers in the world ever built such aircraft. Its development took more than seven years, which took five million man-hours and a billion dollars.

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IN WINTER AND SUMMER

WINTER AND SUMMERWINTER AND SUMMERI am the son of a mechanic; was born and live in a rural area in the Northern territory. Craving for glands, to equipment I can say that since childhood. While still a “beardless boy”, made a tricycle on the tires. But a serious love of cars started after the publication in № 11’91 of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” (a regular reader of which I am) on crawler-ski snowmobile “Idea-2” brothers Matveichuk from, Zavodoukovsk Tyumen region. This is understandable: in winter and summer in our area equipment — not just a means of transportation, but also the mechanization of household work: a vegetable garden to plow, wood to bring.

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THE “PATCHWORK” OF SUBMARINES

By the beginning of the First world war, all naval power was quite easy to divide the main with a significant naval power with diverse and numerous ships of all classes, and secondary, having only a purely local fleets, including, at best, a few dozens of small units and only a few large warships. The former, of course, include the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and France; with some doubt they can add more and Italy. In a wide range of second hits most of the rest of Europe and most developed countries in Latin America. Well, the third category of countries, the Navy of which can be seen only through a magnifying glass, treated other countries in the world, owners is that a pair or two very small gunboats (sometimes proudly referred to as “cruisers”) and other boats, military value has not possessed.

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M1117 replaced HMMWY

M1117 replaced HMMWYIn the mid-1980s, the famous “jeep”, many years in service with the us army, had to be substituted. Then the military picked the car М1025/М1026 (HMMWV – Hammer “Hummer”) produced by AM General firm, recognized as a “highly mobile multipurpose wheeled vehicle”. It turned out to be more functional and powerful, larger in its dimensions, but left only four-wheel drive General purpose machine.

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ELLIPSOGRAPH

ELLIPSOGRAPH — is the name of this simple device. It can be used to draw an ellipse with any ratio of the semiaxes. It is enough to set into the holes on the line of alignment pins to align the center of ellipsograph with the future centre of the ellipse and rotate the line by Read more…