THIS WINDCALLER…

THIS WINDCALLER...Sergey Ivolgin has never been in such a ridiculous position. “And what carried me to this gallery”— once again he repeated, with a desperate longing glances, then stretched out on the water the sail, then moving past such a comfortable, dry inside and not tumbling every minute of the yacht.

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FIRST ARMORED

FIRST ARMOREDthe First British battleship “warrior” with his appearance in 1861 changed naval “table of ranks” in the most radical way. He and other armored frigates suddenly swept from the stage as the wooden ships of the line, and although armed with powerful artillery, but unprotected counterparts. Typical of the cruiser, in fact, become the new battleships. It is not surprising that the designers soon had the idea to do the same operation with units of smaller size.

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INHABITED WING

INHABITED WINGINHABITED WINGIn December 1921 on the initiative of a group Krasnotsvetov (so called in those years, military pilots of the red Army) — the staff of the research version of the Air fleet was organized the first Soviet club “Soaring flight”. Among the most active of its members were B. I. Cheranovskii.

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RUST WILL NOT INTERFERE

Loosen rusted threaded connection will be easier if you soak it with dishwashing detergent of a type of “Fairy”, “Drop”, etc. and leave for some time. Those funds contain components blacksony that will “eat” the rust without affecting the metal and the surfactant will help the liquid to penetrate into the most inaccessible of microsemi. Read more…

WIDER WALK AUTOMODELISMO!

WIDER TREAD, AUTOMODELISME!So, automodelisme entered into the maturity. Twenty years behind — a considerable period in the life of any sport. Anyway, quite enough to sum up many outcomes, and to outline prospects for the future. Maturity. Tens of thousands of children of all ages engaged in self-similar groups and laboratories. A week ago in Zelenograd outside Moscow all-Russian and all-Union competition of models on sleigh starts out of young athletes from Riga, Penza, Vladivostok and Kamensk Ural’skiy — from 16 regions of the Russian Federation and six republics. But winter race — specific type of automodelisme, and they are not completely reveal the geography and characterize the breadth of this technical sport scholars in the country.

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THE FIREPOWER OF A SMALL ARTILLERY

THE FIREPOWER OF A SMALL ARTILLERYTHE FIREPOWER OF A SMALL ARTILLERY“Mal Zolotnik Yes roads” — says a Russian proverb, and this fully can be attributed to the representative of small-artillery — mortar. And roads it is the fact that for over a hundred years a faith and truth serves our artillery. Russian craftsmen have always been famous for their ingenuity, especially in difficult times when we must resist and win. So it was during the Russo-Japanese war 1904 — 1905 years, where it took a simple and effective defensive artillery. Brilliant idea, captain L. N. Kobato realized in the invention “apparatus for artillery fire at close range”. “Apparatus for throwing mines”, including the marine, were designed at that time hastily from scrap materials. They had a small firing range, but strong explosive action. For a century the brainchild of L. N. Kobato has undergone several evolutionary stages and has shown itself in interaction with artillery a formidable weapon, proven in two world and many local wars.

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