Speaking about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, historians experience a certain difficulty — classify or not to classify it among the great powers. On the one hand, the dual monarchy was noticeably inferior to the rest of the political monsters of Europe and the United States and economic and military power and influence. On the other — the successor of once one of the most significant European countries tried hard to maintain its own line in everything, including in shipbuilding. Unfortunately, the “patchwork monarchy”, as ironically called her neighbors, detractors over the motley Nations and autonomies, is not shining more resources to create the naval forces. In particular, this concerned the cruisers, even those of a purely defensive “fleet of coastal defense”, is not going to stick out beyond the Adriatic.
THE “PATCHWORK MONARCHY” AND ITS SUCCESSORS
“When you live on the shore of a large reservoir with a picturesque coast, it is a sin to spend vacation in foreign lands. Especially attractive the summer vacation on the water. Of course, it is necessary to have some kind of flotation device. In our family, for example, there is a cabin boat with two powerful motors, which for many years we proceeded Rybinsk reservoir up and down. Do I need to tell you what a pleasure and what impressions we receive from these trips?
Many of you probably heard about the interesting winter sport — skijoring in which competing skiers towed by a motorcycle. In the Nordic countries is cultivated in this sport — towage of the skier by a horse. The vehicle, which we would like to introduce you to, will allow you to fully experience the charm of a high-speed slide on the slopes without resorting to using horses and not burdening a fellow motorcyclist (who wants to travel in the winter on an open two-wheeled car!).
The peak of development of hydroaviation was in the middle of the 1930-ies. The main advantage of amphibians compared to ground vehicles, flying over extensive areas, it was considered a possibility to land on water surface in case of an emergency, even with waves up to five points. But as time went on. The reliability and service life of the aircraft led to the rapid displacement of the seaplane first with the airlines and then military aircraft. Operation of land planes was easier, and their weight returns payload, as well as a high aerodynamic efficiency has reduced the cost of commercial transportation. The development of the airfield network and other transport arteries, and the appearance of helicopters resulted in an almost complete elimination of the flying boat in commercial aviation. There was only a small segment of the lungs of amphibians, serving tourists and residents of remote, “forgotten God” corners of the Earth.
Amateur designer Oleg Aliev Old from the Moscow region village of Ostrovtsy is known by many thanks to its handsome jeep “SIMOT”, built in 1996. This car can be seen in the television program “the suburbs” and on the feast of the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” in the Luzhniki stadium, in the “Race to the bottom” in Krylatskoye and motor racing “the frost-98” in Moscow, where he participated as a machine breakdown, and finally in rally “the Golden ring”, dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow. Everywhere the jeep attracted attention, despite its somewhat austere appearance, therefore, by the way, he earned the nickname “BTR”. Even on the streets of Moscow, literally Packed with cars, “SIMOT” is of interest to overseas owners of expensive SUVs.
In practice household has long been used sealing paste, called “Mendeleev putty”: it is usually sealed joints frame and the glass walls of aquariums. This sealant around the plastic at a temperature above +45°C and after the solidification crack. And although it is diluted many organic solvents, softening him better not by them but by heating.