A SIMPLE SANDBLASTING

EASY SANDINGSandblaster — correct thing. The more compact, original, crafted with his own hands on the basis of the defective foam extinguisher. In fact, a fire extinguisher is taken only of the case. He cut inside, inserted the slightly curved pressure pipe with threaded ends and “sand” the groove at the bottom.

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SEA KING HAS. Mk.1

SEA KING HAS. Mk.1In 1959, the English firm Wesland received a license for the construction of helicopter S-61 design I. Sikorsky, which was later created in several versions. One of them was designed for the British Royal Navy anti-submarine helicopter SEA KING HAS.Mk.1. Equipped with British engines and equipment intended for independently, without communication with the ship-based search and destruction of submarines. Carrier-based variant of the SEA KING HAS.Mk.1 equipped with a folding tail fairing to facilitate placement on the ships.

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THUNDERGOD BEETLE

THUNDERGOD BEETLEYou can put on the car 4, 8… even 16 wheels. However, in the tundra, for example, even this machine will not work and kilometers. And no wonder that whole design teams engaged in the search for new propulsion, which would come to replace the wheel and provided all-weather cargo delivery, hauling of the forest, the work of the search parties… Already established for this purpose samples of tracked vehicles with very broad, almost 1.5 m tracks, snegokatov, hovercrafts.

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DIESEL BUS ELECTRIC

DIESEL BUS ELECTRICThe development of industry in our country in the mid 30-ies of the last century entailed the growth of cities, and in these conditions all the more urgent became the problem of their passenger traffic. The most rational in this situation was the creation of bus routes mobile and, unlike the tram, does not require the laying of tracks and the contact network.

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RANGE IN ITALIAN

SPECTRUM!In early may 1938 in one of the most beautiful places in the world, the Bay of Naples, reigned naprjazhennejshie waiting. On the vast surface of the water lined up more than two hundred ships under the flags of the Kingdom of Italy with small patches of German. However, the celebration was held not in honor of the king met the two leading Nazi leader, autocratic rulers and dictators of their countries, gathered to soon conquer all of Europe and, if possible, and the world.

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KILLER CORVETTE

CORVETTE KILLERThe legendary 2-seater convertible AC Cobra is the best known sports car in the world, which eventually turned the laurels and one of the centenarians on the planet, produced for more than 50 years without significant changes. It intertwined British style conservative, austere sport “classics” with open bodies and American spirit of a powerful track racing car.

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WAKE TAPE RECORDER

WAKE UP... TAPEI designed a digital timer, which wrist watch, MONTANA, has a great standby time (up to 24 hours), good precision (the error is only a few seconds per day), simplicity, performance and small power consumption in the standby mode. The latter allows you to use the timer as a cost effective and pretty original clock. However, the load in this case is used with a tape cassette that is included in the reproduction, or radio receiver, tuned to the station.

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“THE BEAR” SPECIAL FORCES

Analysis of the use of wheeled armored cars (BA) in local wars and armed conflicts of recent decades have shown the need to further increase their survivability. Established that a significant danger to them are bombs and mines placed on the roads. So, on average, more than 30% of the armored cars was out of action from defeat by them, 40% of cases can be attributed to the share of small arms, the remaining percentage accounts for the impact of hand-held antitank grenade launchers and missiles. However, in operations such as, for example, the Iraqi “desert Storm” or Somali “Revival of hope”, the loss of U.S. armored vehicles against mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) accounted for 60%, much higher than all averages.

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