THE MOST COMPACT JEEP

THE COMPACT SUVAll-wheel-drive Suzuki Jimny SUV. World-famous Japanese firm Suzuki Motor Corporation has its origins from the founded in 1920 the company produced looms. The first motor vehicle with the brand name Suzuki was the motorbike that was released in 1952. In the future, this firm has become one of the largest manufacturers of two-wheel vehicles. Its first car, called the Suzulight, Suzuki Motor Corporation was created in 1955 — it was a miniature triple machine (the fourth seat was occupied by the spare wheel, located behind the driver), equipped with 15-horsepower two-stroke two-cylinder engine working volume of 0.36 L.

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THE HOUSE OF TARA

HOUSE OF TARAI am a regular reader of your magazine for over 25 years. In response to your appeal to subscribers to be not only readers, but also active authors, I decided to share an interesting technology on which built their house: in wall construction is widely used bottle plastic container. I think anything like this over the years, the press was not published. However, I remember about 15 years ago in one of the magazines published an article about the craftsman who built the house out of an empty glass, but it’s kind of isolated cases. My experience is more accessible and can be useful to many.

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CAR? Air SUSPENSION!

CAR? The PNEUMATIC!In the taiga edges is not easy to do without the vehicle of the increased passability. Therefore, all-terrain vehicles have always held in high esteem. For example, I ride my both summer and winter. And he helps not only me. One day I went ice fishing. Steep coast with a height of about two meters from the river was covered with snow, was like a descent. My car is freely moved in this place on the ice where the depth of snow was more than half, and moved on.

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COUNTRY, PORTABLE

COUNTRY, COLLAPSIBLEWith the approach of the summer season this bed is disassembled and can be transported to your countryside area even on the train or commuter bus: its components are easily disassembled and reassembled. The bed consists of two backrest head and foot, two sidewalls, two control panels and two longitudinal legs percolatin, which relies on composite podmatrasnye shield. All of them are interconnected screw furniture ties, and this explains the easy disassembly and Assembly of the bed.

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TROUBLE-FREE LIGHTER

FAILSAFE LIGHTER

“E-match” is the name of the material on electroscience, published in No. 3 of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, 1999. The development will be able to find its rightful place in the kitchens have gas stoves, appliances and other devices with the “blue fuel”. Especially if the thyristor part of the self-made device to enter the additional capacitor C2 with the capacitance of 0.1 µf with subsequent correction of the values of C1, RM and B2 (wiring diagram is shown in bold lines and font).

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TRAILER-UNIVERSAL

TRAILER-UNIVERSALIn recent years, more and more difficult to find untrodden place, even in the Northern Russian province, for collecting berries, mushrooms and, of course, hunting. The most attractive place for recreation usually found along the banks of small rivers, lakes and canals between them. But you must have at least a boat. To this end, I bought from one of the provincial craftsmen great homemade fiberglass hull of a small boat with an outboard motor “Whirlwind”. To bind to its Parking place, and free to travel with him, decided to make the boat light, strong, with good patency of the trailer to the car (at that time I was “Moskvich-2140”). And, besides, he was supposed to be universal, that is to have a detachable body for transportation of any goods from the house to the cottage and back.

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VERY MILITARY “KIDS”

VERY COMBATIVE The elephant-like “light” cruisers, such as “Mogami”, “Brooklyn” or “Belfast”, differ from hard only in the replacement of 8-inch artillery 6-inch, of course, perfectly suited for any combat missions. In General, a very worthy ships in all but one — the price. Miracles in shipbuilding does not happen: to the limit stuffed with weapons and equipment, 10-thousanders of the cost was off the charts beyond that available even to the wealthiest countries in the world. It was impossible to build in adequate to create a balanced fleet quantities, certainly not in peacetime. No Parliament or Congress has not approved such a budget, especially considering the smoldering since the first postwar years the economic crisis erupted, several setiausaha.

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THE FIRST VERTICAL TAKE-OFF “SVERKHZVUKOVOM”

FIRST VERTICAL TAKE-OFF In the mid-fifties of the last century the theme of vertical take-off aircraft excited the minds of the designers and the military in many countries. Was no exception and West Germany. After graduating in 1955, G. ban on the development and production of military aircraft of the German defense Ministry proposed to create a modern fighter-interceptor. Research conducted a year later, the firm “Heinkel” and “Messerschmitt”, showed that for a fighter with a high supersonic speed will require a new, extra-long runway.

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