I-17

- 17In 1933, after the purchase by the Soviet Union license on 760 HP engine “Islamo-Suiza” 12ybrs. N. N Polikarpov again returned to the idea of creating a fighter with a liquid-cooled engine. The planned armament of two synchronised ShKAS machine guns and two promising guns ShVAK (nonsynchronous) caliber 20 mm. To achieve high speed, the fuselage is compressed to the limit, causing the cockpit was very cramped. Flight tests of the first instance And-17 began in the fall of 1934, but due to the identified deficiencies was short-lived.

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A SMALL PLANE — A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

LITTLE PLANE BIG OPPORTUNITIESThe aircraft we design and build do not have booths in them, and the pilot’s seat. Yes, and they do not need aircraft with a five-meter wingspan and three-kilogram payload. “But then it’s not a plane, but only a model,” you say. I do not agree. Coming out of the walls of our body SLE-manned planes and helicopters — are real, and the tasks before them are very serious.

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ELECTROCITY

ELECTROCITYSomehow I read in your magazine the article “rainbow on aluminum” and remembered a very convenient way of drawing figures and inscriptions on metal. Brush for these works is a glass tube filled with electrolyte which has the ability to seep through the hair insert one end of the tube. From the other end of the tube is inserted through the electrode connected with the battery of the flashlight and cover the metal surface. Touching the brush metal, we close the circuit, there occurs a galvanic covering.

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CENTRIFUGAL JANITOR

When the problem occurs clean from rust or scale, of small-diameter pipes, the question naturally arises — how can this be done? We advise you to make a simple centrifugal purifier. Device it is. The two flanges are tightened by four threaded studs. On each is placed a few gears — holes in them is Read more…

LITTLE MICRO-CAR “CRAB”

LITTLE MICRO-CAR Not for them the track of the reps! Your creative impulse they send, for example for roads technical search. Only what no one else did, and the only way never done before! It is no coincidence that this team such a name: “CLUB ETERNAL SEARCH”! His avtolaboratoriya House of pioneers of Leninsky district of the city of Kharkiv. Interesting and exciting work here with the young designers a big fan of Amateur autostructure, a frequent participant of all-Union rally of home-made machines Valery Taranukha — Manager, mentor, chief designer. It creates the micro cars are always distinguished by originality of design and aesthetic execution.

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BARKAS UNDER THE “WHITE SUN”

BARKAS UNDER THE The film “White sun of the desert” became a significant phenomenon in the life of our country — its popularity can be judged by how many sayings and winged expressions added to the lexicon of the Soviet people. Viewers memorable movie characters, ably played by P. Luspekaev, A. Kuznetsov, S. Mishulin, and other beautiful actors. It is worth noting that in this film in addition to animated wonderful actors played their roles and inanimate actors – one of them appeared in the film in the most dramatic of its time.

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