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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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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