WHEELS HEIGHT OF A MAN

WHEELS AS TALL AS A HUMANThe Soviet heavy — duty vehicles- trucks, tractors, the so-called “off-road”, or career, cars deserve a special discussion. They are a unique design, and it is not surprising that traditional parades of vehicles, carried out at ENEA, these machines often played the role of protagonists. Multi-ton MAZ and BelAZ rises majestically above the crowd of spectators. Interest in the machine called not only the dimensions, the enormous size of the wheels and lifting tens of tons.

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GRUMMAN F6F3 HELLCAT

GRUMMAN F6F3 HELLCATThis plane can rightly be called the most successful American fighter of the Second world war. Experts from the U.S. Navy estimated that 75 percent of all air victories of the naval aviation of the United States, accounted for F6F-3 HELLCAT. On battle account carrier — based fighter- 4947 shot down in aerial combat aircraft, and 209 downed F6F-3 land-based.

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ROTOR-DIGGER

ROTOR-DIGGERConveyor under the open sky could rightly be called a complex of the most diverse and unusual cars, created in our country in recent years for laying pipelines in any geographical conditions. The novelties of this amazing technology are annually demonstrated at the Exhibition of achievements of national economy of the USSR. Here, in the pavilion “Gas industry”, a series of exhibitions dedicated to special design Bureau Gazstroymashina, where high-performance mechanisms for gas and oil routes.

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TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS

TRADITION AND INNOVATIONThe end of the Second world war and the beginning of the war “cold” put shipbuilders leading countries of the world in a very difficult situation. What will be the fleet of the near future? A plausible answer to this question. On the one hand, the naval theorists and engineers have gained an extensive experience of fighting the sea, which, it would seem that rightly could be considered the criterion of truth. On the other hand, progress in military technology has been so rapid that to follow him is not always possible. Electronics, jet aircraft, guided missiles, nuclear weapons—all these innovations have required reflection, and the most reasonable solution here would be not to rush and to “pause”. However, to do so would have taken the United States by the end of 1945 they had a huge fleet and was considered to be the undisputed world leader. Other countries, especially those whose Navy suffered heavy losses, could not wait and started to build new ships immediately. The result of this venture was quite natural: the first post-war destroyers, developed on the basis of previous projects, at the time of entry into service turned out to be obsolete and unfit for combat missions in a new environment.

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THE INSTRUMENT FOR TESTING LOW-POWER TRANSISTORS

THE INSTRUMENT FOR TESTING LOW-POWER TRANSISTORSFor its production you will need two capacitors, a resistor and phone capsule (see diagram). Removing the insulation pad under the membrane of the phone parts are mounted directly in the capsule. Check the transistor is connected to the terminals of ALL the circuits. Occurs phone the sound vibrations talk about the health of the transistor. About its amplification factor β can be judged by the intensity of the sound: loud sound — high β, the weak — β low.

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ESCORT DESTROYERS

ESCORT DESTROYERSInevitably looming at the end of the 30-ies of the threat of war forced the British Admiralty to take all possible measures to strengthen the fleet, and to do this required quickly and at minimal cost. If the ensuring action of the fighting force of the fleet one way or another was solved through the construction of various types of destroyers, as we told you in previous issues, the issue of the protection of navigation in the waters surrounding Britain and her possessions, looked much sharper. Three dozen sloops, mostly obsolete, slow moving, not able to ward off even the plane-“whatnot” — that could oppose the “mistress of the seas” potential enemy for tens of thousands of miles coastal strip of the Empire, which yet “never the sun went down”.

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RESCUE TRIAC

Utterly exhausted by his refrigerator, which has neither a hot day, then another “surprise” in the starting relay, was forced to ask for help in workshop. There categorically stated: burnt start winding, you need to change or rewind the motor. And when I calculated what it cost me… well, I ventured on a self-experiment with Read more…

NAKAJIMA B5N

NAKAJIMA B5NThis Japanese carrier-based torpedo bomber with radial engine, Nakajima “Hikari 1” made its first flight in January 1937. Delivery of the first production NAKAJIMA B5N1 on Japanese carriers launched in 1938. A year later, an upgraded version of the aircraft NAKAJIMA B5N2 was released with a more powerful engine Nakajima “Sakae 11”. B5N2 considered the best in the world deck torpedo bomber-1941.

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