WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE

THE FUTURETwenty years competing in competitions avtomodelisty with radio controlled models. In 1957 the first all-Union competitions participated 8 teams of about 50 cars of different classes. RC I didn’t even have enough to play three prizes. The winner then became rostovchanin N. Podporkin, created their own original scheme for the radio and received a special prize for the best technical solution. The winners entered and known in our country, the Antonov an master of sports of the USSR S. Malik. He took the second place, adapting the model aircraft radio equipment ROOM 1 on the car. By the way, and the other less fortunate participants took advantage of this universal (frankly, not very suitable for earthly conditions) equipment.

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THE CEILING — FLYING SAUCER

BELOW THE CEILING — A FLYING SAUCERThe simplest lamp of the decorative cap for automotive wheels. When you lose one of the decorative plastic cap from a car wheel, the remaining three, as a rule, it is necessary to replace as to buy the same to replace lost very problematic. Particularly annoying is throw away almost brand new, recently bought the caps.

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BIKE TRAINER

BIKE TRAINERThe domestic industry for many years produced mopeds and motorbikes with engines of the type “D”. However, all of these machines were a significant disadvantage (which was, however, pay for their low price). The fact that these motors had a single transfer, which significantly reduces their opportunities. So, for them it was almost impossible to budge without preliminary acceleration by foot pedal; connect to motor “human power” I had when driving uphill or on a dirt road, and when driving on the highway the scooter would not prevent accelerating transmission, allows to increase its speed at least 50 km/h.

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NON-MOTORIZED RECORD

NON-CHAMPIONGlider-soaring leader A-15 created by the design team, headed by the General designer, Antonov ASTC, in 1959 and was designed with the latest achievements of gliding in the USSR and abroad. Built in series and for many years was extensively exploited in gliding clubs in the country and abroad, for example in Hungary and the Netherlands. It has more than 20 national and world records.

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“MODEL” CRUISER

“Time of troubles” was the 80-ies of the XIX century for the Russian Navy in General and cruising in particular. In addition to the lungs paranapanema clippers (which was already, in essence, mostly training ships), genuine domestic development remained armored frigates of the “Dmitry Donskoy” and “Vladimir Monomakh”. However, very good for the time of laying they are with their sailing mast location and battery of artillery was somewhat aloof from the world trends in the development of cruisers and gradually became obsolete. The main sea powers one after the other tended to build armored units. Some new armored cruiser was gradually lost huge “sailing” mast with a web of cable and wires, getting in return a contemporary energy and gun installation.

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