SIMPLE AND RELIABLE

SIMPLE AND RELIABLENot often, but sometimes: spin rubber motor on the model, and suddenly it breaks. And it brings a lot of trouble. However, more recently, the fuselage of this “accident” is not suffering — its the working part on rezinomotornaya model aircraft are now in the form of a solid tube made of aluminum or fiberglass. But the propeller is still defenseless. Devices used to protect it from breakage, disks or rectangular plates of sheet aluminum not withstand strong impact. In addition, they are massive and awkward to use.

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WINCH TRACTOR

WINCH TRACTORLarge forestry in the country today are equipped with powerful and high-performance appliances. However, there is a lot of auxiliary operations, the performance of which has not yet been invented mechanisms and tools that facilitate the work, increase its effectiveness and quality.

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SOARING ABOVE THE WAVES

SOARING OVER THE WAVESSOARING OVER THE WAVESThe hovercraft is. Building a vehicle that could move on both land and water, was preceded by a familiarity with the history of the discovery and the creation of original amphibious machines, air cushion (WUA), the study of their fundamental devices, comparison of various designs and patterns. To this end, I visited a lot of Internet sites enthusiasts and creators of WUAs (including foreign), met with some of them in person.

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AMPTRAC “OB”

ANTITRACK ANTITRACK If you try to list all the known constructive scheme of ATVs, that’s probably not enough of this page — after all, their number comparable to the number of Amateurs involved in all-terrain equipment. In this list you will find the place and motonarty, and snowmobiles, and apparatus on the air cushion… And as it turns out, it is harmless to look back and see whether all the “care” of the oldest known structures? Did a reader of our magazine A. Kremnev, designing all-terrain vehicle-amphibious “Ob”.

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THE MAIN THING — SPEED

THE MAIN THING IS SPEEDSlowly, but steadily moved to the highest step of the podium, the master of sports of the USSR from the city of Tambov Yuri Remic. In the past, the renowned designer of flying models, he now received, as we think that “permanent residence” in self-similar sports. Extensive experience acquired in the model aircraft competition, the jury has been successfully used during the self-similar battles with high standard. He is a permanent member of the national team of the RSFSR. In its composition has repeatedly been the winner and the winner of the national Championships. For a lot of sporting success included in a national team of the USSR, one of the strongest in Europe.

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CHILDREN’S RECUMBENT

CHILDREN'S RECUMBENTI’m a longtime subscriber of the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” — since 1968. However in the past two years, wrote out “Technique—youth”, but now once again gave preference to your journal. When my daughter was little, one of the publications engineer S. Kovalev “Recumbent for kid” (No. 7/1990) for her I made a similar machine only the materials and components used the ones that had, and even for greater stability and increased track database of home-made wheels.

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