GAZ-415

GAZ-415Pickup GAZ-4 in the Soviet Union enjoyed a well – deserved popularity – it acquired trading bases, small businesses and cooperatives. In 1936, at the Gorky automobile plant is the GAZ-A, the basis of the pickup GAZ-4, launched a series of GAZ-M1. Factory designers and engineers quickly developed a relatively inexpensive technology of serial production of pickup on the basis of “emka”, the designation GAZ-415.

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AND AEROASTRO

NORTH AEROASTROSnowmobile Ka-30. The first test of the snowmobile “North-2”, created in OKB famous designer of helicopters, N.And.Kamov, showed that they have two fatal defect is small capacity and lack of capacity. Not surprisingly -because this snowmobile was created on the basis of the body of a conventional car GAZ-M20 “Victory” and was a vehicle comparable in these parameters with this cars. Therefore, the design Bureau was instructed to develop still, and a 10-seater snowmobile Ka-30 cab high capacity, which according to its characteristics resembled popular in those years is also a 10-seater minibus RAF-977Д “Latvia”.

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THE REBIRTH OF THE “HARD” ROCKET PLANE

SECOND BIRTH First the model of similar schemes appeared in the all-Union competition in 1982. With them were athletes from Moscow. But at the time of competition for soft raketoplana the type of wing”, Rogallo” they be not could. And further development of “hard” rocket gliders did not have. However, with the introduction in 1989 of a new category (S8 — rocket glider, which have not allowed separation of any elements of the design, including the engine block) this scheme has found a second birth in the category S4 (here design with soft wing is not allowed). In favour of the scheme say and world records set by V. Minakova and S. Ilyin, S. Ilyina at the training camp of the USSR team. The model we present to athletes rocketmodeler.

THE CREATORS OF “FIRE ARROWS” (PART 2)

Fighting vehicle BM-31 on the chassis ZIS-151 in the open area of the technical Museum TogliattiReactive BM-8-24. In August 1941, took arms 82-mm rocket M-8. It was a modification of the aviation RS-82 for use in the field artillery, which had almost twice the mass of the explosive. Creating launchers for M-8 instructed SLE Moscow plant № 733 “Compressor” with the participation of the Bureau of plant No. 37. Led the development of V. A. Timofeyev, a leading designer of chassis D. I. Sazonov. In machine design engineers used a series of nodes from the BM-13, as well as guides such as “flute” used in aviation.

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“THERMOS” FOR POTATOES

For the fourth year keep the potatoes on the balcony in a container of foam slabs of size 900X 900X 90mm, strapped together by means of aluminum corners section 25×25 mm and length of 950 mm and steel pins ø 8 mm (Ø = 950 mm). At the ends of the studs is threaded M8. In places the joints are glued shopon thickness of 5-8 mm for sealing. The cover is pressed against the two lever locks and can be removed. Locks mounted on two metal bands spanning the box around the perimeter (Fig. 1).

BEACH JEEP “GINGER”

BEACH JEEP The idea of building a jeep because we like an active holiday. The basis was taken of the legendary Soviet car UAZ-69. Since it was planned to overcome the car is not only cool roads, but long distances, over “UAZ” had to work hard. At first it was disassembled “to the last bolt” and reviewed.

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