AMPHIBIAN XXI CENTURY

AMPHIBIAN OF THE XXI CENTURYIn late September 1998 in Irkutsk, an event occurred that had no publicity, but, nevertheless, its significance is far beyond the scope of this Siberian city. From the airfield of the Irkutsk aviation production Association in the skies the plane-amphibian be-200. Machine created by the Taganrog aviation scientific-technical complex (TANTK). G. M. Beriev and built at the Irkutsk aviation production Association (IAPA), has opened a new page in the development of hydroaviation.

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TO GO UNDER WATER OR DIVE?

WALKING UNDER WATER YOU SHOULD DIVE IN?At that time, as a little clunky, but gained confidence with their performance of the submarine Holland quickly began to spread from America around the world, Europe remained a private leader in the underwater case. They certainly remained in France, where in the late nineteenth century for the explicitly revolutionary “electric” “Imnot” followed created on the same principles of “Gustave Zede” and its smaller version “Le Morse” gave rise, in turn, the first serial products: “Farfa-de”, “Corrigan”, “Gnome” and “Lutana”.

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HYBRID TRACKED VEHICLE

HYBRID TRACKED VEHICLEI have to say, I don’t homebrew and the car was collected only in order to check how the mechanism of rotation, which I patented. So the car made a simple that have no practical value, except to ride in shallow snow. Caterpillar used Baranovsky, long, sawn her jigsaw into two parts. Stars also buranovskie. As the traction engine took skaterny 150 CC motor with a CVT. Differentials muravievskaya, the rotary electric motor of 1.2 kW from the mixer.

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DELTA-WING ON THE ROCKET PLANE

DELTA-WING ROCKETIf you flip the binder “M-K” for a few years, then they will have a lot of materials about models of aircraft raketoplana scheme. But… time goes on and the situation changes. Three or four years ago, the leadership firmly seized the athletes who construct a model with a wing “rogallo”. Now the adherents of the rigid wing are almost gone – in the international competition of the Czechoslovak “rocketeers” make raketoplana aircraft scheme.

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CHAISE LOUNGER

CHAISE LOUNGERCHAISE LOUNGERWant to relax and indulge in the sweet inactivity, lying in the sun in a comfortable lounger in a quiet corner plot of a country house? Tempting, isn’t it? To accomplish this, we need a little preparatory work is available, as evidenced by the Bulgarian magazine “Guide yourself”, any hardworking vacationers. Following the proposed recommendations, will be able to inexpensively fabricate this alluring sunbed on during the hot summer.

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ON ONE WHEEL

ON ONE WHEELHow many points of support should the aircar! Competition rules allow at least three. Earlier it was mostly given preference to such schemes to “extra” fourth wheel is not retarding the model. But someone came up with the idea to tear from track two. How to do it! It turns out, is only an extension of bar-spring rear track so that it turned into a wing. Yes, in the wing lift tail part of the body.

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HIS LAST

“Every cricket stick to his last” — says the proverb. The same can be said about the tool: it is convenient, when each of them is not only reserved, but also equipped with appropriate storage space. We have already published several different versions of “Gazira” tool — here’s a whole series; their structure and purpose Read more…

“DROP” ON TRACK

A lot of history in the fate of the car racing! Even now, when they are built almost the same pattern, in conversations the athletes to hear the terms “boat”, “drop”, “arrow”, meaning certain areas in the layout. Remember that was a “drop”. The name itself speaks about the shape of the hull. Aerodynamics have always maintained that the teardrop body has the lowest drag, to overcome which spent a large part of engine power. The advantage of “drop” and that it is well located for the centre of gravity of the car: it is very close to the drive wheels. This means that irregularities of the track model of this type will respond much less.

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THE VALVE IS OF THE SPOOL

VALVE INSTEAD OF THE SPOOLEvery modeller wants the motor on his model, and starts with one pull, and worked “like clockwork.” But the fine-tuning motor is not only extremely high precision. It requires not only considerable knowledge, but also certain abilities. Because the manufacture and fitting of any part or Assembly is unthinkable without its “tricks”. How many cares one brings suction system! The variety of constructive decisions shows, so far not found the optimal variant.

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