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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RELAY HALF-TRACK VEHICLES

RELAY HALF-TRACK VEHICLESLenin in Gorki near Moscow in the spacious garage, which is included in the exposition of the House Museum of V. I. Lenin, it is an unusual machine: instead of rear wheel rollers with wearing them on the tracks under the front skis. For several years she has served the Vladimir Ilyich when traveling on snow-covered roads of the Hills in surrounding villages and in Moscow. Today our story about the history of this unique vehicle-the all-terrain vehicle and further development of such structures.

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IMPORTANT — HEIGHT

MAIN — HEIGHTBooster “Diamond-A” in November 1965 into orbit the first French artificial satellite of the Earth. France became the third space power. Length of the rocket “Diamond-A” is about 19 m, launch weight of about 18 tons, the maximum diameter of almost 1.5 m. a Further development of missiles of this series was a three-stage, cross-division stages, the more powerful the rocket “Diamond-In”. Her starting weight of 24 tons, the length of 23.54 m and a maximum diameter of 1.4 m. It is designed to launch communications, navigation, meteorological and other instrumentation.

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BIRD “COMMUNAL”

BIRD To talk about what benefits the garden, vegetable garden or country site bring poultry, it is not even necessary. But it is, so to say, the practical side of the question. What a pleasure deliver bird man his singing—it is too intense. But what of a bird to its nest will summer residents like your plantings, more of a coincidence than a pattern. To lure the birds to your plot offer to make a simple cottage-birdhouse, so that it could fit and live a more birds—make it attic and even the “apartment”.

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