FROM VOLGA STATION WAGON

OF Familiarity with this machine was held at last year’s show “autoexotic” (photo No. 11’2006) — a celebration of homemade and vintage of motor equipment, which has now become traditional and held annually in Moscow at the Tushino airfield. Represented the car Alex starilov her new owner. He tells her readers of our magazine.

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The APC? NO, CAR

The APC? NO, THE CARThe APC? NO, THE CARMan I’m not so wealthy to afford to have multiple vehicles for different purposes (even homemade). So the car that was going to build, was conceived as a versatile vehicle not only for transportation of passengers or goods, but also as assistant in different economic Affairs.

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SCHEMATIC MODEL OF THE AIRCRAFT

A SCHEMATIC MODEL OF THE AIRCRAFTSchematic flying models — the basis of mass sports: Effective speech with “sketchy” the competition gives right to assign the Junior category. The first such model with rubber motor was created just 12 years before the flight of the first aircraft Mozhaiskogo, i.e. in 1870. So what should the modern student to repeat what a hundred years ago managed to create only a talented engineer?

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FROM FIELDS TO GREENHOUSES

FROM FIELDS TO GREENHOUSES“In the USSR, consistently implemented program of transforming agricultural labor into a kind of industrial— recorded in article 22 of the new Constitution of the USSR. Mechanized, full of modern appliances, all major production processes in fields and farms, and the Park of machines and mechanisms continues to grow with new technology, help improve the efficiency of agricultural production and improve its quality. Your contribution to the creation of units, and devices, which eliminates manual and time-consuming operation in field husbandry and animal husbandry, are making the innovators — how in industrial plants, as well as directly in the farms. Their ranks today join the young force out of graduates, following the example of their peers from rural schools of the Kostroma region, who decided to link their fate with the life of the village.

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THE SLEDGE “THE PLANE”

SLED Needless to say that coasting on sleds is one of the most popular pastimes — a great form of active rest in winter. Is it because in different countries there are many quite different from each other types of sleds, from simple sieves, stuffed with straw, to multi-piece designs, the manufacture of which only a very good craftsman. Gradually transforming and improving, Luge has won recognition in the international arena and even among the Olympic sports: sledding “skeleton” and “Bob” played the most important sports award — the medal winners of the Olympic games.

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AN UNUSUAL BUT SIMPLE

AN UNUSUAL BUT SIMPLEFor many years he was a subscriber to “Modeller-designer”, learned from your magazine a lot of useful and thanks to him “crush” on the bike (velomobile) theme. But to make own design was only in later years, after retirement. Now I go to this unusual crew (see photo), surprised his fellow citizens and gain of energy and health.

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SAWS FLYWHEEL

SAWS... THE FLYWHEELModels — the design tender. And Reiki it requires mainly fine. The cross section of 1X1 mm is probably the most common workpiece. Their production is significantly easier if you use our circular saw with manual transmission. A small sawmill “in the teeth” the thin rail, and the cleanliness of the cut is such that further processing is not required. This is achieved due to the very thin cutting tool, disc cutter with a thickness of 0.2 mm and a diameter of 32, 40 or 50 mm.

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IN WINTER AND SUMMER

WINTER AND SUMMERWINTER AND SUMMERI am the son of a mechanic; was born and live in a rural area in the Northern territory. Craving for glands, to equipment I can say that since childhood. While still a “beardless boy”, made a tricycle on the tires. But a serious love of cars started after the publication in № 11’91 of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” (a regular reader of which I am) on crawler-ski snowmobile “Idea-2” brothers Matveichuk from, Zavodoukovsk Tyumen region. This is understandable: in winter and summer in our area equipment — not just a means of transportation, but also the mechanization of household work: a vegetable garden to plow, wood to bring.

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