DOUBLE-IZH

DOUBLE-IZHDuring construction of Amateur-planes, gliders, vehicles, air cushion causes the most difficulties recruitment engine. It is no secret that the production engines often do not meet the Amateur designers on many parameters, in particular power density.

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FROM MOPED — MOTORCYCLE

This machine I once (in 1998) collected from degraded and abandoned because the owners of the parts and components of various vehicles. Rama — from the Riga moped RMZ-126 “Delta”. From him the gas tank, wheels, suspension. But the powertrain and drivetrain restored from the motorcycle M-103. Have been successfully combined electrical ignition system of Read more…

CATAMARAN “FRISKY”

CATAMARAN CATAMARAN From the time of this writing I have built five catamarans of various designs. In designing, building and testing these boats took an active part my friend Anatoly Pavlovich Ignatchenko. Not to say that none of them did not satisfy me. A catamaran with inflatable floats performed well on water the Moscow region, and Lower Volga. But Pneumatics poorly kept shape, which significantly reduced the speed. So the idea arose to build a catamaran with rigid floats.

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Electrical twin-engined

Electrical twin-enginedIncreasingly, we receive letters from readers describing flying models, which instead of internal combustion engines operate motors of different systems. This is quite natural and timely: judging by many indications, the electrification of aircraft modeling – in sight. No wonder the first successful examples of flying models are available in the “toy” version of some foreign model aircraft firms. Among them are low-cost models, capable of conducting free uncontrollable flight duration of 1-3 minutes, Cordoba for the different types of food on the wire and even radio-controlled model of the coast, including the piloting. The duration of the last flight without recharging has managed to bring up to 10-15 minutes. However, the electric power is still inferior to compression and heat rating.

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“ZHIGULI” — THE LAYOUT AND MODEL

Novice automodellista propose a simple model with a body made of thin stiff cardboard. Manufacture the body you need to start with drawing and cutting with the side walls of the pattern No. 1. To get the contours right and left walls, the pattern upside down. After cutting the parts beaten out from the inner side with a hammer, giving them a slightly curved profile. Longitudinal breaklines make incisions on half the thickness of the cardboard on the outside and the inside — on the dotted line.

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FLOATING LOUNGER

The apparatus which I have named “aquaplane”, designed for active swimming on the back even for non-swimmers, with stops to rest as on a sun lounger, directly on the water surface. It consists of two separate parts: the float and foot oars plywood blade with “pedals”, the United articulated. The float consists of a foam Read more…

F5-M — YACHT CHAMPION

F5-M — YACHT CHAMPIONThe classification of the European Association of Amateur athletes of ship modeling sport (“NAVIGA”) provides for managed competition models of sailing yachts in three classes: F5-M (“Marblehead”), F5-10 (“Enricher”) and F5-X (free). The design of boat models the first two classes has the names of the first winners of the European competition.

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