MEET: I — ROBOT “ORION”

MEET: I AM A ROBOT Perhaps in the near future when the new spacecraft will go to the moon, Venus or Mars in the Arsenal of the astronauts will be robots who will come first to the planet’s surface to conduct scientific researches, to perform simple welding and Assembly work. So I decided the guys from the mug space simulation Sumy city station of young technicians and build a similar robot with their hands.

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PRESS PHOTOS…

To obtain good gloss on the pictures, you must tightly roll it to the plate elec-regencies. It is very convenient to do it with… washing machine, more specifically — squeezing rollers. Passed through them, the pictures size up to 20X30 cm not only tighter “stick” to the plate, but will get rid of the excess Read more…

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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