OUR “VICTORY”

OUR A Russian passenger car GAZ M20 “Pobeda”. This particularly civilian car was designed during the great Patriotic war. For a future peaceful life, she produced and assembled at the factory, almost completely destroyed by Nazi bombers and nevertheless producing light tanks T-60 and T-70 self-propelled guns SU-76M and armored cars BA-64. Finally, this machine was created by people who in this difficult time found the strength to work on the post-war future, then seemed incredibly far away…

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KAMOV Ka-50

KAMOV Ka-50His first flight of the day anti-tank helicopter the Ka-50 made in 1982. When designing the machine was seen as an alternative to the American helicopter Ah-64 “Apache”, and the testing process successfully passed the contest in which his opponent was an attack helicopter Mi-28.

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SNOWMOBILE: IDEAS AND DESIGNS

SNOWMOBILE: IDEAS AND DESIGNSInterest in snowmobiles as individual means of transportation on winter roads and sporty type motor vehicles manifested itself long ago. But as widespread as it is now, the hobby of Amateur snowmobiles contributed, undoubtedly, increase the General technical level of young people. According to incomplete data, the number of snowmobiles built by enthusiasts since 1968, has almost doubled.

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AT THE END OF THE “NU, POGODI!”

REPAIR Electronic games with liquid crystals (especially “Nu, pogodi”) children love and appreciate. The disappearance of the “multisignal” a pair of WOLF-HARE “pocket” of the screen is perceived yet children sometimes worse than all misery. And who, if not us, adults (and even more so — consider themselves Amateurs with experience), not to please the younger generation quickly repaired electronic game.

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CITY BUS ZIS-154

CITY BUS ZIS-154First bus ZIS-154 was collected on 8 December 1946. He became the country’s first bus with a diesel-electric drivetrain. Machine (at first) was completed by MHI diesel-4-71, is coupled to a DC generator, and traction motor via a drive shaft transmit torque to the drive axle.

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