BUILDING A CHOPPER

STROM CHOPPER

I am a regular reader and admirer of “Modeller-designer”, In turn, would like to offer the subscribers of the magazine the story of how I built a chopper.
 
Amateur “copperstone” gained strength of seven or eight years ago and still maintains its position. But if you had fans designed choppers are mainly based on a heavy “Ural” and “Dnepr”, the last time these original cars appear on the ground, even for light motorcycles.

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SAILBOAT UNDER… UMBRELLA

SAILING UNDER THE... UMBRELLA

I think that the idea of using the umbrella as a sail come to mind to anyone who has solved it in a strong wind. However, the first whose attempt to use the umbrella instead of sail was in due time recorded in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, was Georgy Arbuzov, one of the pioneers of Windsurfing in the country and Chairman of the section of Windsurfing at the FPS of the USSR.

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AS FOR THE VILLAGE WITHOUT A TRACTOR?

AS A VILLAGE WITHOUT A TRACTOR?

For many years Hobbies of technical creativity as the main source of materials and machinery for me was a different sort of scrap yard. Out in my shed “migrated” all that seemed valuable to me, and was waiting for their application to varying design. Unclaimed gradually accumulated, and eventually the question arose: what to do with it? Would not go. Here and decided to maximize all these different glands in your new tractor. Design “Angara” started with a sketch drawing of the design. Then, after the detailed execution of working drawings, started construction. The result was, in my opinion, quite aesthetically pleasing, technologically advanced and reliable machine, with a reserve for possible future upgrades.

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THE WAY TO “EAST”

THE WAY TO The subject of today’s article – geophysical rocket R-2A. In previous publications we described in detail the technology of making copies of R-1 and R-2. The same technology used to create the model of R-2A. Will not be superfluous once more to tell for those who have not read those numbers.

I want to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that a copy of the R-2A for the competition will undoubtedly be more difficult than the previously described R-1 and R-2. But it justifies itself. First, the presence of side boosters (containers) due to the complexity of manufacture of the Central block leads to an increase in points for “the stand”. Secondly, if you do the ejection side of the mortars in the model (but more on that below), increased the rating for the flight demonstration.

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THE WAY TO “EAST”

THE WAY TO Model-a copy of the ballistic missile R-2

In 1951, took arms ballistic missile R-2 (product 8Ж38), created under the leadership of S. P. Korolev. Its performance characteristics were: missile launch weight of 20 to 300 kg, the maximum flight range is 576 km, mass of warhead – more than 1000 kg. R-2 to improve accuracy in lateral direction had a system of the frequency control with two antennas on the body, weight an untucked missiles – 4430 kg.

TRAILER CYCLISTS

Trailer cyclistsOn a conventional two-wheeled Bicycle much gear not to take, even if it is equipped with a trunk. Meanwhile, the need from owners of these machines frequently. It is therefore advisable to make to the bike trailer.On the construction of such a two-wheeled trailer said Zbigniew Hyun-nel and Andrew Fedoruk in the Polish magazine “Mlody TECHNIK”, article from which prepared this publication.

 

 

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THE FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

FIRSTBORN OF THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRYThe Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.

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THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

THE FIRST AND EASIEST SNOWMOBILE

The snowmobile, which, the story goes, collected the tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamenka. This is not surprising. Equipment guy is fond of since childhood – for eight years, he has been in the CCC (children’s creativity Center) to the circle of “Small appliances”. In a compilation of drawings and design layout and transmission schemes of machine assisted group leader Viktor Aleksandrovich Kurbatov. Responsible welding works helped to run his father – Boris Andreevich. Everything else until the processing of parts on machine tools, has fulfilled himself. In total, Sergei built a snowmobile for about a year, the Assembly took almost four months, from autumn to spring. And until the snow melted, I managed it only to test, “Ispahan” everything drifts around the house. But now revealed some shortcomings, which for the next season is going to be eliminated.

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