THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE?

“Small, but perfectly formed!” — called our article about microvesicle (“M-K”, 1974, No. 5). And the mail brings descriptions of all new designs, such as this one built by father and son Surovymi from Leningrad. The frame is welded from nodes a scooter; the front fork is reinforced with the same purpose, replaced the spokes Read more…

THE WINNING STARTS!

Thousands of children are engaged in the sections of sports clubs DOSAAF, creating and testing a variety of model-copy, high-speed kordovye, RC — in accordance with his inclination. Miller southern machine-building plant Oleg Shcherbakov drew time model, And that’s the first good results of the “specialization” of the athlete-modelers Dnipropetrovsk aviasportkluba DOSAAF: he has the Read more…

POLIHALE?

Otherwise, I think, and not be called a “spectrum” of Ryazan Hobbies of our reader Valery Helstein: model aircraft, radio, cynolebias, speed boat (master of sports, the third place on superiority of RSFSR), picture… Designed a copying machine for Amateur films, a motor for cord advanced “telephoto” to the camera “Krasnogorsk”, automatic slide projector. And Read more…

WOODEN SLED

Why not just get on the forest in the Arkhangelsk region wood! Prefer and lecturer in the school of the village Lamorna Oleg Dmitrievich Cheese. Teaching children the skills of working with wood, he became interested in the design of this fertile material. Active helpers his pupils 7— 8 classes. Improved carpenter’s bench, made by Read more…

OFF-ROAD THE FIRSTBORN

OFF-ROAD FIRSTBORNLuxury SUV VOLVO XC90. In a model program of world famous Swedish company had everything with the exception of this jeep SUV. Meanwhile, the marketing policy it is strongly demanded to fill gaping holes in a number of the most reliable and safest cars, which are car brand VOLVO. And this appeared: in 2002, the firm has represented buyers their first real SUV VOLVO XC90. He immediately became a kind of a dream of the perfect vehicle with a spacious seven-seater body, powerful turbo engine, permanent all-wheel drive and with all possible systems and security…

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FLYING UNDER THE ROOF

FLYING UNDER THE ROOFFor many school model aircraft clubs create room flying models is the only available form of modeling. Judge for yourself: the season of the competition model, as a rule, coincides with summer vacation, and autumn, winter and spring start model is quite difficult weather conditions. At the same time any sports or Assembly hall is a great arena for competition in the class of low-speed models with resi-nomotion. The design of the latter — the process is no less fascinating.

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ELECTRONIC EAR

ELECTRONIC EARCheck slabovidimym acoustic signals is of great practical importance. This: fault diagnosis of internal combustion engines; search for places of leakage of gas from the damaged pipeline networks; early detection of diseases of internal organs; organization of acoustic communication and alarm systems; capture seismography, noise of different origin, including sounds of nature (birds singing, for example) and many more.

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OVEN ON… SPRINGS

OVEN TO... LEAF SPRINGSIn Russia the Banya is not only a place of bathing, “hospital”, a place of rest, but part of the culture. Well, about the garage and say no is the individual a man’s world! And one of the main things in such constructions – the oven! It is very important that it was convenient to use and that it gave more heat.

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A STANDARD NATO TANK

NATO STANDARD TANKSince the emergence of tanks as a kind of weapon in their design a special mark was put “duel armor and shells”. By the end of the Second world war, showed a certain balance. One of the original criteria in the development of new war machines was the requirement that the tank armor is not penetrated by armor-piercing projectiles of his own gun. In this approach, and were all post-war tanks of the so-called first generation.

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