THE HEIGHT IS FIXED

THE FIXED HEIGHTTo rocketmodeler it is no secret that the easiest way to measure the height of the flight model triangulation method. It is based on the measurement of the angles between line of sight and reference planes. Is the choice of the reference planes and the measured angles is largely determined by the degree of difficulty of the subsequent trigonometric calculations of the height.

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“WATER BEETLES” IN THE SNOW

Chetyrehlistnyj snowmobile The first design P. A. Deryabkin snowmobile-amphibianPaul A. Deryabkin, snowmobile enthusiast equipment Ivanova from the city, have created more than one snowmobile. His first design, snowmobile-amphibian (photo). successfully tested six years ago. The trail was designed and built trehmernye snowmobile, which also showed good driving performance. But they had a weak side: the lack of stability on sharp turns and when driving on rough terrain. And now created a third option: chetyrehlistnyj snowmobile (figure), which, according to P. A. Deryabkin, was the best.

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CAR FROM THE SHAR’I

CAR FROM THE SHAR'ICAR FROM THE SHAR'IIsn’t that an elegant car? But this is a self-made design. Produced car craftsman from the town of Sharya, the Kostroma region, Vladimir boaster. “Plumbing specialties do not have any — he writes to edition. — Work as a skydiver-a fireman on the protection of forests. Build your car 4 years”.

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THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE?

“Small, but perfectly formed!” — called our article about microvesicle (“M-K”, 1974, No. 5). And the mail brings descriptions of all new designs, such as this one built by father and son Surovymi from Leningrad. The frame is welded from nodes a scooter; the front fork is reinforced with the same purpose, replaced the spokes Read more…

THE WINNING STARTS!

Thousands of children are engaged in the sections of sports clubs DOSAAF, creating and testing a variety of model-copy, high-speed kordovye, RC — in accordance with his inclination. Miller southern machine-building plant Oleg Shcherbakov drew time model, And that’s the first good results of the “specialization” of the athlete-modelers Dnipropetrovsk aviasportkluba DOSAAF: he has the Read more…

POLIHALE?

Otherwise, I think, and not be called a “spectrum” of Ryazan Hobbies of our reader Valery Helstein: model aircraft, radio, cynolebias, speed boat (master of sports, the third place on superiority of RSFSR), picture… Designed a copying machine for Amateur films, a motor for cord advanced “telephoto” to the camera “Krasnogorsk”, automatic slide projector. And Read more…

WOODEN SLED

Why not just get on the forest in the Arkhangelsk region wood! Prefer and lecturer in the school of the village Lamorna Oleg Dmitrievich Cheese. Teaching children the skills of working with wood, he became interested in the design of this fertile material. Active helpers his pupils 7— 8 classes. Improved carpenter’s bench, made by Read more…