Patrol flying boat NC-4. During the First world war, the only transport artery between America and Europe was a sea passage across the Atlantic. This way for the transport ships was quite a long and risky as the oceans they lay in wait for German submarines and warships.
Catamaran-vetrohod with hybrid propulsion. Despite the almost complete power supply equipment heat engines, shipbuilders are still hoping to create a workable ship, driven by wind. Only the last decades appeared sailboats with automated staging, management and cleaning of sails, Verkade with rotary motors, sailboats with a rigid sail-wing and kite sail…
When an artist falls in tough conditions restricting the freedom of his work, this sometimes leads to the most advantageous solutions. For several decades, the designers of the Gorky automobile plant under the new modifications of the car “Volga” as immutable bases are forced to use the frame from released in 1968, the old GAZ-24. Sometimes this leads to rather controversial, but in General, these limitations contribute to the kind of positive conservatism, allowing to maintain the style and visibility of cars Gorky brand.
For a Bicycle with an open frame (like “gum”, “salute”), I made a small, simple, easy child seat. This is the place for your child can be called even comfortable — it’s soft and equipped with special running boards, and steering between the horns still mounted and arm.
Who often have to deal with firewood for the stove or fireplace knows that tie the wood to carry from the woodpile home is not very convenient: the logs don’t want to develop as it should, strive to crumble. Flip the stool, put the rope in it and then across it — the wood, the Read more…
Whatever frame you collected connection rods, sticks or baguette in a corner is always a problem. To solve it, use all sorts of devices of varying complexity. But the most simple: a wooden block with a sawed rectangular groove. The inserted glue the slats are urged drank from the bar part and podrazdelyayutsya by clamp.
Many city dwellers like to relax in his bathhouse, but in most cases this opportunity they have. Even the owners of garden-plots do not always have the conditions to build a full bath: one does not have enough space, the other funds, and to the third of both. Here to such “unfortunates” whose desires do not coincide with the possibilities, took it myself and I until my hands came across a book “How to be a farmer”, which tells of a small bathhouse.
Each model airplane is a painstaking work of the designer, as well as hours of training on Assembly. Creating and gluing a model airplane, as a rule, requires a lot of time and attention, but this hobby allows you to experience unprecedented passion, pride and joy for hand-made model.
Question about creating a tank with a missile weapon for the first time raised the Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, V. A. Malyshev at the meeting with representatives of the tank industry on 31 January 1956 in Itself the idea of equipping tanks missiles was not new. Back in the 1930s on the tanks of the BT experiment was set starting devices for large-caliber rockets (RS) during the great Patriotic war base light tank T-60 was used to install reactive systems of volley fire (MLRS); the work was carried out on equipment of heavy tanks KV-1 TO the short tank rocket artillery system (KARST), but it remained at the stage of prototyping. The allies some American tanks “Sherman” had the rockets as secondary weapon. All the tanks weapons missile weapons was to install an unmanaged type RS, ERS-132.
This event happened April 12, 1961: a powerful carrier rocket put into orbit a spacecraft “Vostok”, piloted by our compatriot Yuri Gagarin. His name was the synonym for extraordinary heroism and amazing courage. The loud echo of the flight immediately and reached the “shores” of the world of philately. Post offices 25 countries dedicated to Yuri Gagarin about 150 commemorative stamps and blocks.