CUT “HEAVYWEIGHTS”

BITE-SIZED The eternal conflict of needs and means of their realization was particularly glaring after the start of construction of the “Washington” cruisers. Desyatitysyachnye high-speed ships are often not inferior to the dreadnoughts of the last war neither in length nor in cost. Their number depended primarily on the thickness of the purse, and with it all countries during the great economic crisis, the situation was not all that great. In a particularly unpleasant situation, “mistress of the seas”. Britain needed a lot of cruisers, at least 50 that need to be changed to the new type required fantastic for those times the sum of 100 million pounds. Meanwhile, in 1926, the financial situation became so critical that I had to abandon two of the four scheduled “County.” The fate of the two planned building ships also remained in question. The Admiralty then went on a long beaten path, trying to abandon the “maximum” heavy cruisers in favor of smaller and more economical option.

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The MiG-3

MiG-3The fighter I-200 was developed from November 1939 under the leadership of H. H. Polikarpov, and then A. I. Mikoyan and M. I. Gurevich. The first flight took place on 5 April 1940 the Serial production of I-200 at the factory number 1 in Moscow started in June 1940 under the designation MiG-1. The MiG-3 differed from the MiG-1 with a modified wing, larger wheels and an increased fuel capacity with partial installation of the tanks. The majority of fighters were armed with one 12.7 mm and two 7.62 mm machine guns, from February 1941, some of them got two 12.7-mm machine gun. The plane could carry up to 220 kg bombs or six rockets.

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VICTORY – FOR DESIGNERS

VICTORY FOR CONSTRUCTORSIn the autumn of last year in Tashkent was held the second personal championship of the USSR on flying sport, which was attended by 53 athletes from almost all the Union republics of our country. According to the established tradition, the championship was played in three model grades — SE, S4D and Ѕ6А. The editorial Board appealed to the chief judge of competitions the master of sports V. S. ROZHKOV to comment on the results of the competition, to talk about the changes that are made to already existing design of rocket modeling championship winners — leading athletes of our country.

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“DREAM” – A CAR PRESCHOOLER

Dream… How can she be the child? I was 5 years old. Father Andrewski, the boy next door, buy somewhere a used pedal car (our industry at that time, in my opinion, were not allowed), repair it, and the envy of all the boys of our yard – Andrei proudly unrolls it. Now it is very difficult to convey in words gripped me then feeling. It wasn’t even jealousy, but something more, it was some solar Eclipse, this was the dream of my childhood.

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IN THE SAND WITH OIL

Usually in rural houses and garden plots economic tool stored in sheds or workshops outside of the house. Such areas are characterized by high humidity, corrosion of metal parts. To avoid this unpleasant phenomenon, offering to store the tool in a box of sand, soaked with machine oil.   A. CARPENTER, S. Stepanovka, Zaporizka obl.