In the club of young technicians in the Novosibirsk Academic Town, in the laboratory of experimental modeling and design, off-road vehicles called “Marsh” tricycles have been designed and built. The tricycle features a modern compact open-body design and a powerful IZH-56 engine installed at the rear above the vehicle’s leading axle. The engine is equipped Read more…
“What kind of terem-teremok is this? It’s not low, not high…” The dimensions of the house are indeed small, but, looking at the adjacent descriptions and diagrams, you will see that it has everything necessary. But, as they say, there are options: from the simplest ones depicted in the adjacent drawings to a quite comfortable Read more…
FLOATING CAR with an engine from a moped was successfully built by A. Nazarov from Yaroslavl. I want to introduce readers of “M-K” to the assembled amphibian. I designed it to practically solve a whole range of problems and contradictions that arise during the design process. There were quite a few of them, but the Read more…
Every Sunday, the gates of the “Buggy-ERMZ” sports section open. Cross-country cars, or buggies, with the characteristic noise of motorcycle engines, emerge onto the factory yard. Today is a training day. On this day, the most enthusiasts gather, and everyone wants to test their skills before the upcoming competitions. After all, the one who shows Read more…
My technical creativity began as far back as I can remember. Of course, it all started with models and various useful things. My simple crafts were born at the end of the common yard, in the storage room. I had to be happy with such a place: after all, others didn’t even have a roof Read more…
In my amateur boatbuilding practice, it turned out that the small two-seater leisure catamaran “Ryba” is far from the first; I built it even later than the large four-seater tourist sea-faring one (also sail-powered). In some aspects, the small boat replicates the large one—for example, the two-hull (or more precisely, two-float) single-masted scheme, the set Read more…
The history of creating our autogyro, later named DAS-2M, spans over two decades. The first flight of the DAS autogyro took place in May 1980 in an unpowered version, towed by a “Zhiguli” car. It happened at one of the agricultural aviation airfields near Tula. After the first flight, we realized that the aircraft was Read more…
According to today’s classification, micro motorcycles designed for city use are called this way (their dimensions allow storing the vehicle in an apartment and transporting it in a passenger car). And “family” because the design turned out to be suitable for both me and my son. We built two minibikes: they differ only in headlights Read more…
There are many enthusiasts for whom a velomobile has become not just a hobby but a passionate obsession. And then there are people for whom a velomobile is literally life itself. More accurately, it’s about the ability to move around, which, in essence, is interconnected. For such a means of transportation, speed and load capacity Read more…
In the snowmobile “Blizzard,” which I designed based on many developments published in “M-K,” elements of the schemes of classic snowmobiles, “amfitrak,” snowcat, pneumatic sleds, and aero skis have come together, combining almost all known snowmobile mechanisms. However, my vehicle cannot be attributed to any of these groups – it is a combination of a Read more…
