This powered paraglider (such craft are now more often called paramotors), developed at the design bureau of the “Eureka” amateur technical creativity club in the village of Torga, Yakutia, was named “Carlson-4”. The number in its name clearly indicates that this is the fourth variant of such an aircraft. Since 1985 we have accumulated considerable Read more…
Camber and toe-in of a passenger car’s wheels can be adjusted very accurately without going to a service station. You only need some basic metalworking skills and simple tools to make your own set of devices for this adjustment—simple and convenient to use. Consider as an example the VAZ 21063. The distance between the centres Read more…
Training on the simulator is part of a complex of organizational, methodological and technical measures of the Kaunas Hang Gliding Sports and Technical Club DOSAAF, aimed at improving flight safety, and is designed to master the skills of controlling hang gliders of any class. *** The design of the simulator is based on a device Read more…
The design presented here is a half-track motorcycle with a steering front wheel on a low-pressure tire and a driven track, intended for off-road travel—mainly in summer and in the off-season, in winter on snow (cover up to 25 cm thick), and also on ice and hard crust. The motorcycle’s capability is, in effect, “go Read more…
Every year more and more bodies of water become “closed” to motor vessels. So what are water-motor tourism enthusiasts to do? Moor their boats for good? Not at all! It’s time to remember the sail. Sailing rig can become a real alternative to the rattling, fuming, water-polluting outboard motor. The feeling I had when I Read more…
Engineers were led to the use of air cushion by numerous attempts to reduce the hydrodynamic resistance of ships. As early as the beginning of this century, Swedish engineer Gustav Laval began work on accelerating ship movement using air lubrication—a thin layer of air introduced between the ship’s hull and water. However, he failed to Read more…
…The silence of a sunny spring morning was shattered by the sharp clatter of an engine. A peasant digging his garden with a shovel straightened up and looked over the fence at the neighbor’s plot: what was that noise at the old Ilyichevs’? He saw a small two-wheeled machine emerge from behind the outbuilding onto Read more…
A motorcycle and a car are different machines. First and foremost, in terms of comfort. But can the advantages of two-wheeled transport be combined with the convenience of a passenger car? It turns out they can. Such two-wheeled machines—autorollers or motocars—are sometimes seen on the streets. We suggest you build one of these designs yourself. Read more…
Livestock productivity depends not least on the temperature of the water that animals drink. Warm water is also required for farm needs. That’s why it’s so important to control its heating at any time of the year. This can be entrusted to a simple automatic device. By the way, it will also take care of Read more…
In the second issue of “M-K” for 1976, I read an article “Electronics on a Motorcycle” about an electronic ignition system. It has a DC to AC voltage converter. This circuit requires a battery to operate. Many owners of motorcycles such as “Voskhod”, “Minsk” would like to equip their machines with electronic ignition, but they Read more…
