SNAKES HANG GLIDERS

SNAKE-GLIDERSOn the pages of popular French children’s magazine “Wife Anne” describes the two models of hang gliders, designed by Jean-Paul Movie and Christian Neuville. Wing Delta is an isosceles triangle with a height equal to half the base. The keel has the shape of a triangle with angles 90, 60 and 30°. Like most kites, wing “Delta” consists of a stitched frame and twine, wound on motoviltse. The cording is made of fine and durable matter, frame — wooden slats. The glider is very light, so to run it, a small gust of wind.

“THIRD HAND”

In Amateur practice it is often necessary to assemble temporary circuits and soldering details “stuck” (as a welder). While in one hand the wizard tweezers, soldering iron in the other; item, to which it is necessary to solder the other element or conductor, “spinning” on the table: — need a “third hand”. Proposals on this subject abound in scientific and popular technical journals. For example, in the form of two clamps mounted on a tripod, or gum, and then just a small grip.

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“VICTORY” IS GETTING ON SKIS

In 1959, the USSR Ministry of communications has ordered the design Bureau of the famous Builder of helicopters N. I. Kamov unusual for this size car — a snowmobile. Developers were tasked to create a vehicle that could provide postal services in remote in the winter areas of the North, Siberia, Kazakhstan and Far East.