F3V — SPEED RC

F3V — SPEED RCAt competitions in ship modeling sport of most interest among audience and many athletes call the competition of high-speed radio-controlled models figure chart. The most popular of them can be considered a model of the class F3V — free design. Their creators usually distinguished by deep knowledge of the operation of radio equipment, motors of internal combustion, the skill of “navigation” and of course specific practical skills.

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YUZHANKA: BOAT UNDER SAIL…

YUZHANKA: BOAT UNDER SAIL...Every year, more reservoirs becomes “closed” for motor boats. What in this case do Amateurs vodnomotornyy tourism? To put their vessels on the joke? In any case! It’s time to recall the sail. Sailing rig can be a real alternative to a rattling, smoky, polluting water bodies with suspended motor.

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“ROCKET” CLASS S-3-A

Constructed this model of the Bulgarian athlete G. Lalev — European champion in class S-3-A 1979. The case is made from one layer of paper on the mandrel Ø 17 mm, and then covered with a thin aluminum foil. At the bottom of the fixed magazine of the Linden under the engine. Guide rings are bent from copper wire Ø 0.5 mm and glued to the hull with epoxy. Stabilizers cut from the balsa plate with a thickness of 0.5 mm and covered with aluminum foil. They are attached to the body butt on the epoxy. Fairing the balsa. The dome of a parachute with a diameter of 500 mm are cut from the Mylar film. Weight of model without motor — 10

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INSTEAD OF CATERPILLARS — AUGER

INSTEAD OF CATERPILLARS — AUGEREvery year more and more intensive is the development of remote areas of the country that holds in its bosom untold wealth, so necessary to the national economy. Finding these hiding places of nature, there are numerous exploration party. They travel hundreds and thousands of miles of impassable tundra, cross bogs and swamps not freezing in the harsh winters of the river, deep snow.

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GAIN POINTS ON THE “STAND”

EXPERIENCE A failure to “stand” due to poor paint quality model. A crucial role when applying color coating plays spray. I tried them for twenty years are many, but none fully satisfy me. That’s why in the end had to undertake the designing yourself. Took a commercially available spray “Shine”, refined some details and making some new ones. But in principle the device fully to make yourself; all of its elements are quite simple.

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ROTARY HOE

ROTARY HOEWe return to a universal small-sized agricultural machine WSM-2 “Cinderella”, designed and built by members of the primary organization of VOIR Seversk secondary school № 44, Krasnodar region (“M-K” №9 1980, №6, 1981). Designed for use on the school experimental plot, student production brigades, in the household plots, collective and state greenhouses, USM-2 can already carry more than a dozen kinds of operations. Nevertheless, Seversky, students continue to improve “Cinderella” — come up with new and new agricultural tools that extend its capabilities. Today we will talk about two such soil-cultivating aggregates: cultivator and mower.

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