Executive ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM. Cars of this company are known to many. However, to drive them ever as a unit — too narrow a range of vehicles on the dual radiators which are emblazoned the letter “R”. This firm is Rolls-Royce. Among its clients are the kings and presidents, billionaires and bankers. And this is understandable — after all, only ex-works (factory) price of the basic version of the Executive ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM of production in 2003 is 320 thousand euros!
The plane “Rysachok” (including the “extra long” variants) – has a simple and technological design of cheap aluminum alloy. The manufacture and Assembly of all modifications are performed in the same process a snap, with up to 90% shared parts and the same percentage of the total components of finished products, including engines and avionics. The cabin unpressurized, with a sliding back passenger door of large dimensions.
All familiar with the childhood desire to ride, any kid wants to sit in the cockpit of a car and “steer”. Teenagers make the most unbelievable truck on the bearings and the rattling roll downhill on asphalt. And imagine the anxious excitement with which the boy first gets behind the wheel. The car started moving; he feels like a pioneer!..
Every time lugging bulky geophysical equipment on mountain glaciers, I wanted a jeep. Finally it was received. And here we tracked the car-amphibians against snow-capped mountains… revved the motor and the machine, lost in the snow at the cabin, moved slowly. Ahead was the forehead of the glacier. Pretty flat for Hiking standards: degree fifteen. But the driver knew that the snow he did not take, and took the car sideways. In the middle of the forehead jumped out the caterpillar.
At the end of 1942 armored division of the US army on the state was a third armed light tanks M3/M5 “Stuart”. The weakness of their reservation and weapons quickly revealed in November, when American armored units in North Africa for the first time joined the battle with units of the Panzerwaffe: the fighting machine was completely powerless against medium German tanks.
Since the invention of engineer D. Zimmerman of the GDR flat disk of the spool to control the inlet of the working mixture in two-stroke engines, slide valve gas distribution has found wide application in racing engines for many leading companies.
It seems that in our country starts to revive the system of renting household appliances. Hence, people with modest incomes the opportunity to use, say, digital photo and video equipment, previously inaccessible because of its cost. But if there is a technique Kodak, Sony or other well-known firms, whether to restrain themselves in the quest to understand: what is it so prized?!
Among the variety of non-contact sensors are the most attractive for developers of motor vehicles, including improvised, turned out to be induction (or generator) — unpretentiousness to external conditions, ease of manufacture and durability. On the basis of “indukcionnye” was created by different devices: from the simple, registered linear motion, to complex, such as the ignition system with digital control, the fuel injection system, anti-lock braking system, brake control, etc.
Electricity is steadily going up. So now even avid spenders are forced to take care of her savings, the benefit — there is a very wide selection of devices designed to save valuable kilowatt hours. Its rightful place is here and homemade machines off “extra” loads. It is gratifying that among the most interesting of them — the development receiving a “ticket to life” in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see, for example, publications in № 4’89, 6’91, 9’92, 1’95, 7’2001 of the journal).
To our seats and climate such a car — a real find. About its patency can be judged by one picture, without looking at the table of specifications. Even a layman will notice the high land of the body, suggesting substantial clearance, and the number of wheels. So the off — road element of this Rover.