WOODEN ANTENNA…

WOODEN... ANTENNAThe ham-hams is well known that, to ensure reliable connection in addition high-sensitivity receiver and a powerful transmitter is needed and a well-designed antenna. There are many types of antennas, however, have to limit ourselves to just two or three. And one of them often becomes a quarter-wave vertical pin or, more precisely, its improved version, which in radio is called the Ground Plane.

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AEROBATIC TRAINING

TRAINING FLIGHTDevelop some automaticity in managing the cord of the model during takeoff and horizontal flight, you can begin to build more complex apparatus. It will help you to learn how to perform all the basics of flight complex: forward and backward loops, turn and slide flight “on the back”. Unfortunately, your first robust model of these figures can not do too heavy reinforced design. Therefore, flight training is based on a different principle: the minimum weight, which gives good flight characteristics at maximum ease, which will allow you to repair the microplane for a few hours and re-enter the track or in the field.

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GRANDNEPHEW

GRANDNEPHEWCompact car Polski FIAT 126 p. The present publication, we complete the story of the glorious cohort of Italian runabout, initiated by FIAT-500 Nuova, designed by the famous avtodizayner Dante Giacosa. Ideologically, the car became the successor of pre-war double minicar FIAT-500 Topolino, but structurally, it was a completely different car.

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TABLE-TRIPTYCH

TABLE-FOLDINGThe proposed table is equally comfortable in large and in small apartments. It can be used as a coffee or tea. This table is easy to move to the balcony or the lawn at their summer cottage. Design feature in that the carrying table can be easily folded and store when it is not needed, even put into the wardrobe in a flat pack.

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THE CLOSET… UNDER THE BED

THE CLOSET... UNDER THE BEDYou approach the bed and out of it… skiing, manual sewing machine or a binder of old magazines, a suitcase or a heater. “Well, — the reader will say-the skeptic, is this furniture dockominiums”. However, let’s not jump to conclusions. Central to the exhibition NTTM, furniture exhibitions of the last years it was possible to see more than one design bed, retractable in the Cabinet-wall. Day it is, thus, not interfere, and the night leans like the table of the Secretary, relying on the hinged back.

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THE FIRST ALL-METAL, THE LAST TRANSPORT

THE FIRST ALL-METAL, THE LAST TRANSPORTTaking into account the experience of glider landing operations of the allies during the Second world war, the Soviet government also decided to provide for their airborne troops in large gliders capable of carrying heavy weapons. The decision was taken in 1947 By this time, the team of V. K. Gribovsky was already disbanded and specifications for the design of heavy gliders got the design Bureau of A. S. Yakovlev and S. Ilyushin.

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CAR SNOWBOUND

Snowmobiles and tracked metamagic — “heritage” the magazine of the circle of technical creativity “modelist-Konstruktor”, in the village of Siwa Perm region. The first snowmobile created with your own hands R. G. Akhmetzyanov (pictured in the center rear). The machine is so attracted the attention of the local boys and has awakened in them the Read more…

FIRE BURN

FIRE BURNWhen the firebox of the fireplace or stoves in the country wood raw material to the combustion process from time to time it is necessary to control: throw the wood, increase craving, etc. to Replace “master’s eye” and recall this can offer an electronic device indicating the reducing flame in the furnace (the furnace).

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THE LATEST “IDEA”

LAST Snowmobile-stick “Bruins” with the engine IZH-P3. So, from the author of the popular among designers and fans of the series homemade snowmobile of the type of “Idea” — manufacturer’s description the latest and most powerful “stick insects” (snowmobile with caterpillar tracks made of wooden bars), nicknamed “the Bruins”.

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