All conscious life Vladimir Menshikov associated with the sky. In his childhood he built flying model airplanes. Hence the choice of a profession. And as a matter of course, flying school. The profession of pilot in the way to heaven is opened. More than 20 years, the cockpit of a helicopter—his main place of work, and the wheel—tool. But don’t forget Vladimir and the children’s hobby is modeling. Designed model, but now missiles. What I remember Volodya (as our longtime friendship can call it so), it has always featured the true, the desire to make new, more interesting than others. So, in 1982, he first adapted for remote control launch model rockets fragment of the control stick helicopter (its upper part).
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Dream master the air ocean has long been concerned with humanity. This is reflected in the legends of antiquity, and the works of scientists of antiquity. The mythological wings of Icarus were made of feathers bonded by wax. Leonardo da Vinci, developing a frame structure of the wings, hoped to move without hands, and stronger leg muscles. But the subdued air element was with… stationary wings. Flapping flight is still not revealed all its secrets.
In the late winter of 1974, on the snowy fields near airport “Domodedovo” there was an unusual car, like the egg of a magical bird, the ROC, or a giant cocoon. Leaving behind clouds of snow dust it with remarkable speed glided across the plain and easily overcome the pretty steep climbs. Maneuverability it aroused universal surprise: a complete course “cocoon” was unfolding just in one place!
Despite all the difficulties of the post-Soviet time, the interest of our young citizens for the modeling are gone, and the ranks of the students, is passionate about making the existing car, ship and plane models with the subsequent participation in sports competitions, are constantly replenished in the circles of technical creativity.
Many professions small all-purpose Ka-26 in he became a forest firefighter. A simple device for extinguishing fires developed at the Leningrad scientific research Institute of forestry. It is a cable device with an outboard tank for collecting water from nearby ponds in flight.
In the construction of models of domestic aircraft such as TB-1, TB-3 and other required shirred casing, which is coated frame model. To make this trim easy. For this is the “rolling mill”, shown in the figure. For its production choose two of the same gear Ø 20-30 mm. of the same size will be the diameter of the rolls. The base of the machine — dural channel. To it with screws attached two dural pillar thickness of 8 mm. Between them there are two rolls with a length of 100 mm. the Axle shaft of the lower roll to freely rotate in the apertures of the columns (preferably without backlash), and the upper “floating” inserts of rectangular shape, which is inserted in a rectangular window racks. It is necessary to adjust the clearance between the rolls.
Many cyclists, especially in provincial cities and towns, and put “on a trick” their “two-legged horses” and in the winter time. But winter is winter. Even four-wheel vehicles are recommended to be changed to studded tires. To say nothing about the less stable two-wheeled transport. Risk of falling with him and injury increases many times.
Shiny from the oil the heavy stack of sheets… How to approach it, how to raise and load? Until recently, this operation was quite time-consuming — each pack got tangled up in the rope and be lifted into a wagon by crane. Then had to climb inside and release the cable. Besides the fact that engaged these two people — the crane and crane work, lots of time was spent on loading, unloading, fuss with cables, and the work is far from secure.
Any Amateur ice-fishing dreams about the convenient and easy means of transport to quickly get to the coveted perch holes? In one of the rooms “Modeller-designer” I read about motorware construction. Ibragimova decided to build such a machine. The engine and the wheel set from scooter “Tourist”. When testing mateboer speeds up to 70 km/h on ice and dense crust, but on loose snow skidded. In addition, it was quite heavy: about 140 kg.
“I suggest, I have developed a method of manufacturing a wing for a model aircraft, — says the head of the aeromodelling circle in the House of pioneers of the city of Serebryansk Anatoly Wainilowicz. The device that you need for this easy and beginner model airplanes”.