OBEDIENT TRAILER

COMPLIANT TRAILERAfter reading in the “M-To” article V. Sedov, “the Trailer for “Jupiter” I thought that the exchange of experiences, ideas and technical solutions encourages and facilitates the work of Amateur designers. Perhaps my thoughts and study will interest readers, come across them on new interesting solutions or at least will help in the technical work.

Steamer from childhood

Steamer from childhoodWhat is usually associated the term “straight-through”? Of course, with aircraft jet engines to achieve the highest supersonic speeds. And how can become a propulsive ship …? This is what we tell you today. “The heart of The engine,” the proposed mikrosudna is an unusual device, based on the principle of action on convection. Recall that a similar effect is found in the use of liquid cooling devices of some automobile engines ( “Trabant” and others). On these machines, the water circulates independently, as warmer tends to rise up and fall down cold. Thus the cooling system of “pumping” water without using any pump.

MINI JEEP “PONY”

MINI-JEEP It just so happened that the car in our country is becoming less of a means of transportation and all more luxury. Accessibility for a person of average wealth — not a speculator, not a businessman, not a banker close to zero. Those hundreds of thousands of rubles, I ask today for any car, not save any “works righteousness”.

“GRUPAS” BUSINESS AND SPORTS

As a rule, the design of velomobiles produced by homebrew are applications. That is, if the velomobile is designed for sports, speed runs, then all of its design features correspond exactly to this, and it is unlikely such a machine will be able to exploit an older person for the daily commute. And, on the contrary, completely eliminated the sports participation of household malogruzovaja-workers. This distinction is understandable, since for velomobiles of different types of completely different design principles, design loads and as a result design components and parts, design. But as it turned out, “harnessed to a cart horse and quivering DOE” is still possible. Confirmation of this — I have made velomobile “Grupas”.

WITH SAIL – IN THE HANDS

WITH SAIL - IN THE HANDS OFIn the early 70-ies I happened to be a member of origin in the country of Windsurfing. In those years, sailing enthusiasts Board has high hopes for its extensive and widespread, but, unfortunately, a truly massive this sport did not, although the number of adherents of the sail increased significantly over the past two decades.

AISLE DIFFERENT – THE TRACTOR ONE

AISLE DIFFERENT - ONE TRACTOR

Constructed by the readers of “M-K” mini-tractors, as a rule, are designed to perform agricultural work for General use. They strictly conditioned by the dimensions of the bridge track to change except that a permutation of the elements of the wheel, when the different location of disks and the rim allows to fit the machine to the varying width of the aisle. Interesting technical solution to a longstanding design problem to minimize the risk of damage to plants during the processing of row spacing of tilled crops mini-tractor, V. Chirkov suggested sabotage the village of Lotoshino (Moscow oblast). In his new machinery MT-7 (on the previous and highly acclaimed experts on VDNH USSR, see “M-K” 2/83) track width can easily be changed. As they say, by order! Because the front axle of this mini-tractor is sliding, and the required track width on the rear axle (taken from GAZ-51 with a subsequent shortening of his original technique) is achieved by replacing conventional wheels (right) on a special, fatty hub.

THE RETURN OF THE BOOMERANG

RETURNING BOOMERANG40 SECONDS IN THE AIR, THE RANGE OF DIRECT FLIGHT 114 M AND THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TRAJECTORY IS ABOUT ONE – THIRD OF THE KILOMETER- THESE ARE RECORD FIGURES RECORDED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION BOOMERANG THROWERS. THIS EXOTIC SPORT HELD A KIND OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, COLLECTING FROM ALL ENDS OF THE EARTH FOLLOWERS OF THE ANCIENT MARTIAL ART. TODAY HAS BECOME A PURE SPORT. IN ADDITION TO THESE RECORDS, IT IS INTERESTING TO MENTION: THE MAXIMUM DURATION OF FLIGHT OF THE BOOMERANG – 50.8 SECONDS AND THE SIMULTANEOUS PRESENCE IN THE AIR 14 BOOMERANGS, CONSISTENTLY RUNNING ONE ATHLETE!

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LIFEGUARD IN MINIATURE

RESCUEModel class EX-500 is especially popular with novice modelers: as a rule, they are simple and at the same time allow you to play with them in competitions of any rank. Today we introduce readers to one of such models. As a prototype the selected twin-engine boat rescue service, Royal air force. These boats were used for search and rescue pilots who were shot down over the sea, and to carry out the functions of protection during the second world war.

WEAPONS AIR FIGHTERS

WEAPONS OF THE AIR FIGHTERSThe followers of Cordoba modeling we offer today a selection of two closely-related within the meaning of materials. In the first of them tells of a very successful training model, which can successfully perform in the school competition in the class “air fight”. The second development deals with the creation of a serious sports equipment available for the average Modeler materials. Thus we will try to help beginners cordovil undergo a two stage improvement.

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