FROM ZAPOROZHETS — BAGHEERA

FROM ZAPOROZHETS — a deep fascination with the technique came to me in youthful years, when he began not only to repair the scooter, but to collect them from different old parts. Then, growing up, over to the motorcycles, have altered their own way: faced on your own taste (the word “design” then in my everyday life were not), made easier, more fashionable, more powerful, more comfortable.

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FOR ANY SOIL

ON ANY SOILThanks to the “Modeller-designer” I’m still at school became interested in technical creativity. Three-wheeled all-terrain vehicle is one of my latest designs. It used the engine from a motorcycle “IZH-Planeta”, equipped with a fan, differential — motorized С3А, fuel tank (located under passenger seat) — from scooter “Electron”.

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WE MADE A TRACTOR!

WE DID A TRACTOR!Building a tractor-little young designers not deny myself the pleasure to use his own name initials. So there on the hood of metaphora three polished letters SAP, which means Sergei and Andrey Pavlovs. In a letter sent to the editors, they said that the big help in the development of the tractor had his father — Valery, All three regular readers of our magazine.

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BIKE TRAINER

BIKE TRAINERThe domestic industry for many years produced mopeds and motorbikes with engines of the type “D”. However, all of these machines were a significant disadvantage (which was, however, pay for their low price). The fact that these motors had a single transfer, which significantly reduces their opportunities. So, for them it was almost impossible to budge without preliminary acceleration by foot pedal; connect to motor “human power” I had when driving uphill or on a dirt road, and when driving on the highway the scooter would not prevent accelerating transmission, allows to increase its speed at least 50 km/h.

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NON-MOTORIZED RECORD

NON-CHAMPIONGlider-soaring leader A-15 created by the design team, headed by the General designer, Antonov ASTC, in 1959 and was designed with the latest achievements of gliding in the USSR and abroad. Built in series and for many years was extensively exploited in gliding clubs in the country and abroad, for example in Hungary and the Netherlands. It has more than 20 national and world records.

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ASSISTANT DEVELOPER

ASSISTANT BUILDERFolk wisdom says that man’s life is not lived in vain, if you planted a tree, raised a son and built a house. And if the first two cases of special mechanisms is not required, when building a house can do without them. And the most necessary woodworking machineries — circular saw, power planer, milling machine, fixture for turning or instead of them — one multifunctional machine. It does not matter what the walls of the house: brick, concrete, or any other. No wood structures and materials is still not enough, since the tree — building material is not only versatile, but indispensable, especially for indoor decoration.

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FLYING ON THE SIDE

FLIGHT TO THE SIDEModel of a catamaran-class “P” with a sail-wing. Few people remember that the apparatus used for movements the aerodynamic forces, was created more than five thousand years ago. It was a self-propelled vessel with a sail propulsion, which worked exactly the same as the wing of a modern aircraft. The only difference is that the lift force of the aircraft wing pointing up vertically, and the pulling force of the sail horizontally. In fact, the movement of the sailboat is the same flight, only on the side.

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THE MILL, WHICH PLOWS

MILL, WHICH PLOWSEach year, digging up kitchen with family land on the plot where the tractor was simply not to turn, thought: “I Need a walk-behind tractor-tiller”. Of course, you can deny something else, by such a mechanism. But, Thinking about what it will be used only a few days a year, this option was considered unprofitable and, therefore, unacceptable. And then decided to make a walk — behind myself!

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FRONT AXLE GOVERN ITSELF

FRONT AXLE GOVERN HIMSELFFRONT AXLE GOVERN HIMSELFThe car’s handling and tyre wear, as we know, primarily depends on the state of the front suspension of corners of a longitudinal inclination of axes of rotation, and angles of camber and toe. As a rule, adjustment of all these parameters produce on special stands at service stations, but in this case it is not always the adjustment will be optimal for a specific vehicle and specific conditions.

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