A SCOOTER OR CITY BIKE?

Less and less will see on our roads a nimble scooter. This is not surprising: the main producers and their fates were abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So what else from this series is now sold in specialized stores, is cars. Accordingly, the price… To all that volatile MOTOmed gives the consumer a more convenient, more modern cars of the same class — scooters. Miniature scooters with 50-CC engine with automatic transmission and starter, can reach speed up to 80 km/h, providing comfort, who never dreamed of the owner of “Riga” or “Carpathian”.

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SNOW TOBOGGAN ADRIATIC

SNOW TOBOGGAN OF THE ADRIATIC

Popular Yugoslav magazine “ABC-technology” in its two hundredth issue published material chief editor Vekoslava Bosnar about the amazing sled, designed by fans of the snowy slopes.
As in the southern country, fanned by the warm winds of the Adriatic, also like to ride a mountain on sleds? Love! And even come up with their design is such that it can find application we, the northerners, on the slopes of the Russian mountains.

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AMPHIBIAN VYATKA STUDENTS

Off-road amphibious all-terrain vehicle tires low pressure, built studente and employees of technology and economic faculty of the Vyatka state pedagogical University, in operation for more than ten years. During this time, confirmed the unique capabilities of the machine. The Rover moves steadily along any road, through thick dirty, snowy or swampy terrain of the area covered by tussocks and shrubs, overcomes water obstacles. Its own mass of about 250 kg, can carry up to 500 kg of cargo on water and land.

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ATV “TRAMP-YUGRA”

Zyzio - Yalta-hualca!

The history of the vehicle is quite long. First began to be fit to travel on our road of “Niva-2121” – put her on the big wheel from the “Jeep”. Traveled on it with a neighbor (also, incidentally, an avid fisherman and hunter), but the cross for our seats acusados enough. Kupipi DPJ “Fields” copesa tires “Shine”. Clipped in the back of the arch, the post-Willie protruding wheel arches, so that the dirt is not cast on glass, and went back. In General, I liked it, only inside the little space and the water machine does not float. Wanted to do more.

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“E” CULTIVATOR

The idea of creating a mechanical assistant for the treatment of garden I came up with long ago. Looked appropriate magazines “modelist-Konstruktor” with the description of the tilling tools and came to the conclusion that on the basis of the available I have the power unit and the control levers scooter “Electron” is it better to motoliberty.

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TRIMARAN… FOUR BOATS

TRIMARAN... FOUR BOATS

Advantages of compact folding boats is obvious, disadvantages is also. In one of the old issues of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” (on last page) photos and a brief description of a folding trimaran Leningrad shipbuilding V. A. Vakulenko. His trimaran consisted of three folding units in a triangle and connected in a single whole lattice platform. The great thing about this design is the extreme simplicity of the housings. This is the basis of my boats.It consists of four identical folding compartments. Their side opened and fixed in this position by the spacer in plan resemble a diamond. At the same time, the underwater portions of the compartments have smooth streamlined contours. Sealed jar and two bracing bays to form a trimaran.

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MOTOR-PLOW ILICHEVA

MOTOR-PLOW ILYICHEVA

…The silence of the Sunny spring morning shattered the clatter of the engine. The farmer, perekapyvayut shovel your garden, straightened up and looked over the fence into the neighbor’s plot: what’s that noise in the elderly Ilicevic? He saw from behind the outbuildings to the garden went, shooting a blue smoke, a little two-wheeled machine, behind which, holding the long handle of the control, Chagall Ilicevic son-Sergey.

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GHOSTS IN THE ROYAL SERVICE

GHOSTS IN THE ROYAL SERVICEIn the beginning 1960-ies to the leadership of the British Navy faced the problem of replacement fighter aircraft “sea vixen” (Sea Vixen) more modern machine. First, the sailors wanted to buy from your company “Hawker Siddle” (Hawker Siddeley) supersonic aircraft vertical takeoff R. 1154. But because of its high cost and the inevitability of problems in development, they turned their attention to the American Phantom, which was relatively cheaper and did not require a large investment of time to create.

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THE SNOWMOBILE RIDE YOURSELF!

When winter comes and the snow is “fluffy blanket” covers the ground in many areas, the only vehicle able to overcome it “fluffy blanket”, it becomes tracked all-terrain vehicle or, more commonly, a tractor with a sled-scraper. Of course, you can buy a Japanese ski-goose-nicou Yamaha (though it is worth more than another car) or buy now rare a cheap domestic “Buran”. However, always need such a powerful machine?

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WITH THE WING… ON SKIS

WING... SKIINGSail is one of the oldest inventions of mankind, who played a revolutionary role in the development of navigation. The Millennium operation has made sailing propulsion is very perfect, and it seemed that his aerodynamic abilities reached its practical and theoretical limit. A new stage of development of this propulsion system uses the wind power, was the creation of a rigid sail with double-sided sheathing.

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