THE ANTENNA… HIGH-SPEED MANUFACTURING

ANTENNA... RAPID MANUFACTURINGOnce, while on vacation with an overnight stay in a tent on a wooded Bank of the river, found an annoyance: a portable TV operating off the car battery, bad was shown on the set of the antenna due to the weakness of the incoming signal. Then began experiments with aerial: spinning her this way and that, but to no avail. Then began to try to connect to the antenna and instead found in the boot of the wire. He was placed in different places, all sorts of curved loops, but otoh, too, almost gave nothing – UHF signal with a piece of wire was seen as bad.

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TURNING CURTAINS

TURNING THE CURTAINSIn interior décor – be it a city apartment, rural or country house — most especially functional and decorative role plays different draping: all kinds of curtains; curtains and Drapes adorning the doorways; the tulle on the Windows and curtains. The latest must-have even in those homes where there may not be anything else. And that they are subject to all the variety of fabrics and devices. There is even a well-established division of curtains on certain types.

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AT THE START — “PENNANT-9”

AT THE START — Flying clubs Directive of the Central Committee of DOSAAF of may 25, 1979 allowed to build gliders only on the drawings approved by the technical committees of local federations of hang gliding. Besides flying a self-built devices should be performed only after examination by the representatives of the technical commissions in the field. This decision was due to the need to ensure safety both during training and during sports performances and is intended to nullify the persisting injuries.

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THE PROUD FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF

THE PROUD FLAG OF THE REPUBLICEtendard — his predecessors and successors. iavlenie nuclear weapons not only changed the balance of power in the world, but also determined the path of development of military aviation in the first five years after the Second world war. A priority for the countries possessing nuclear weapons was the creation of the heavy bombers to deliver nuclear bombs, and fighters to escort their bombers destruction of others.

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A GIFT TO THE FIRST START

A GIFT TO THE FIRST STARTA GIFT TO THE FIRST STARTIt’s been over a decade since then, as avtomodelisty decided to make your sport all season and came up with kordovye model of the sleigh. Now, perhaps, it is difficult to name the author, the first such model: the necessity of introducing the lessons of the circles simple, affordable design that would combine the speed of production and the possibility to use the internal combustion engine, would the creative scope for the budding modeller and, moreover, would not be just “educational” (like, say, contour resonators), was clear to many.

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“BEAVERS” AND “SEALS” THE KRIEGSMARINE

The German Navy was engaged in an ultra-small boats only in 1944. Prior to this the Germans managed to capture a number of European States, without resorting to the use of underwater diversionary means. The only “small” submarine that was developed in the early years of the war, was V. 80. But it is not planned to use for combat purposes, this 4-person submarine was used only for testing balcerowski turbines. She had a displacement of 71/80 tons and a length of 26 meters.

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The Il-102

Il-102After Sukhoi in an unspoken competition to build aircraft of the battlefield joined OKB S. V. Ilyushin. The main difference between the Il-102, su-25 table a second cockpit for the gunner. The aircraft has ejection seats K-36L pilot and K-36L-102 from air gunner. The main landing gear retracted on the fairings under the wing.

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THE CRUISER-LIKE SHIPS, AND SHIPS-CRUISERS

CRUISER-LIKE SHIPS, AND SHIPS-THE CRUISERTwo decades on the verge of XIX and XX centuries were years of turning the cruiser into a real fighting machine. Continuously growing sizes; armored vehicles gave way to armored, the latter suddenly replaced by a linear one. In parallel, there is a subclass of fast light cruisers scouts, which gradually became the main one. But all these types and varieties intended for combat — or as part of squadrons of “large fleets”, or when solitary hunt for their own kind. Naval experts and the developers did not forget about such tasks as intelligence (in the interests of the same “big boys”) or mine production. But the result in the famous “paddock” was a major historical mission of the cruiser hunt for the merchant ships of the enemy.

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