LEARN TO FLY!

LEARN TO FLY!You built the plane. Naturally the desire of the designer to quickly rise into the air. However, the first thing you must “train” to learn flying on your aircraft are extremely serious and responsible. First of all it’s elaborate and it is good to understand the fundamental principles of flight dynamics, principles of stability and controllability of the aircraft. You need to assess what dynamic features are common to your machine – in particular, what is the stall speed, takeoff and landing and maximum speed, how effective are the rudders, and finally, how stable in the air the unit itself. And only then can you begin the exercises in the cockpit and actually fly, strictly following the principles of gradualism in the development of the machine. Today we open a kind of correspondence summer school for Amateur constructors and pilots. We will introduce you to the basics of flight art the most common mistakes novice pilots, as well as techniques correct behaviour of pilots in extreme situations.

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TAPE FOR WING

TAPE FOR THE WINGIs a beginner model airplanes at least once to see the competition of the dogfight, as he immediately declares: “I Want to build bouzouki!” And it can be understood: indeed, the air battle — an exciting spectacle, besides themselves “fighters” is so simple that just a few days the athlete, who undertook a new car, already feeling it in the air. And then you can dispense with the use of scarce balsa. And unlike other classes in a dogfight is often possible to achieve good results even with accelerated serial domestic engine.

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OFFROAD – ITS ELEMENT

OFFROAD - ITS ELEMENTUtility terrain vehicle “Lytvyn-3903” created in 2013. The design of the machine – frame. The body is fiberglass (the frame of steel pipes), 3-door. Salon from the cockpit is not separated. The number of seats (including the driver) – up to 12. Engine – Kubota diesel 2.2 D (Euro-3) with a capacity of 48 HP at 2800 rpm. the multi-mode Transmission: 2WD/ 4WD/6WD. Gear shift – manual transfer case – 2-speed. Main gear – hypoid with limited slip differential Cam (all 3 axes). Suspension on all six wheels chassis – independent, spring, with hydraulic shock absorbers. Front hub – UAZ.

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RESONATORY CLIMBS

RESONATORY CLIMBSToday I want to introduce You to the model class B1, having almost the same set of wings. This force diagram consoles with a transverse set of pine slats is fully justified, since for such models, the requirements of stiffness, processability and low weight is no less important than for a glider.

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HAMMER-THE MAGICIAN

HAMMER-THE MAGICIANIn my experience that after the publication in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” home-made car (like mine in the January number for 1971) are the authors of many cities requesting them to share their own experiences. Now, during the crisis, when the possibility of homebrew is limited, I want to help interested readers advice: how, in practice, to restore or to produce the car body with the method of knockout.

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ERASER INSTEAD OF SODA

ERASER INSTEAD OF SODAThe different orders had to perform for the last time a Cup “Junior technician”, school № 81 of the city of Gorky. This one was especially unusual and interesting. Heads of school rooms of manual labor, drawing, and painting turned to our designers to develop machines for selling pencils and erasers.

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