CONTROL SYSTEM

CONTROL SYSTEMNew technology for the manufacture of model airplanes, primenyal the modelers of the GDR from the city of Erfurt, the magazine introduces readers to No. 6 in 1977. Today we tell about the well-proven original management system stabilizers models of gliders. I hope that the Soviet model airplanes with interest acquainted with the design of the control mechanism and get it on “weapons” in their practice.

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P-06 EXPERIMENTAL

R-06 EXPERIMENTALIn 1935, in the Reactive section of the CA osoaviahima of the USSR designer A. I. Polar was designed and built experimental rocket. Originally it was called “Osoaviakhim” (R-1). Subsequently, she was given the index R-06. Only manufactured ten of these missiles. After extensive bench and flight tests, during which were worked out the engine and other systems of the missiles, it August 25, 1937 was the official flight tests.

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PULVERIZER FOR… PINE

PULVERIZER FOR... PINEThe fact that under natural conditions perform wind and insects at the breeding stations have to do manually by the staff: in the hybridization of tree species they hold dusting brushes or cotton swabs. However, in the morning when this work is most effective, dusting is difficult because of the moisture deposited inside plastic bags isolation of inflorescences. At day same time violated the clean dusting. An ingenious device proposed by a senior researcher of the Central research Institute of forest genetics and breeding V. Iyevlev, will greatly help the scientists.

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“MUSTACHE TRIANGLE”

French fighter-interceptor. In 1967, the firm Dassault, in cooperation with Swiss engineers aircraft factory in Emmen, started work on the modernization of Mirage, known as “Milan” or “kite”. The main feature of the Milan was canards (PGO), which received the unofficial title of “whiskers”, intended to reduce takeoff and landing distances and increased maneuverability in dogfighting. The principle of operation of the PGO was to create pitching moment at low speeds without losing lift and increasing drag.

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AIRBORNE TANKS ENGLAND

AIRBORNE TANKS OF ENGLANDIn 1936, the British firm Vickers-Armstrong, the initiative has begun to develop a light reconnaissance tank, designed to replace the light tank Mk.VI, did not meet the military mainly in terms of weapons. The design of the new machine was carried out under the direction of engineer Leslie little. The new tank differed sharply from all previous models of the firm and embodied many revolutionary ideas tank builders.

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