A SMALL RECUMBENT FOR LARGE ROADS

SMALL RECUMBENT FOR BIG ROADMini-recumbent, about which speech will go, was born in the Kazan Studio of Edward Stovbunenko — designer of velomobiles and a lover of travel to them. Edward party festivals, parades velomobiles “Golden ring” organized by Moscow club of enthusiasts biotransport (CAB) twenty years ago. Since then, he’s on different models with a muscular drive of his own, passed under the Russian and foreign roads the way, almost equal to the equator of the Earth.

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“BURAN” WOULD BE SAFER

In the design of the transmission of a snowmobile “Buran” has a centrifugal accelerator, the CVT. During intensive operation of the snowmobile this node will wear out within two seasons. First fail the movable cone of the variator and Cams-weights. The reason for such a rapid wear of the mentioned parts is quite simple: the Cams abut in the troughs of the movable cone, thus squeezing out deep dents. When starting the snowmobile from the place when the engine begins to develop momentum, the Cams are unable to smoothly get out of these depressions, there is a sharp jerk of the belt variator, which leads, among other things, and rapid wear of the belt. In short, almost every season you have to change the movable cone, centrifugal accelerator and a belt.

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A SMALL PLANE — A GREAT OPPORTUNITY

LITTLE PLANE BIG OPPORTUNITIESThe aircraft we design and build do not have booths in them, and the pilot’s seat. Yes, and they do not need aircraft with a five-meter wingspan and three-kilogram payload. “But then it’s not a plane, but only a model,” you say. I do not agree. Coming out of the walls of our body SLE-manned planes and helicopters — are real, and the tasks before them are very serious.

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LITTLE MICRO-CAR “CRAB”

LITTLE MICRO-CAR Not for them the track of the reps! Your creative impulse they send, for example for roads technical search. Only what no one else did, and the only way never done before! It is no coincidence that this team such a name: “CLUB ETERNAL SEARCH”! His avtolaboratoriya House of pioneers of Leninsky district of the city of Kharkiv. Interesting and exciting work here with the young designers a big fan of Amateur autostructure, a frequent participant of all-Union rally of home-made machines Valery Taranukha — Manager, mentor, chief designer. It creates the micro cars are always distinguished by originality of design and aesthetic execution.

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AT THE START — “PENNANT-9”

AT THE START — Flying clubs Directive of the Central Committee of DOSAAF of may 25, 1979 allowed to build gliders only on the drawings approved by the technical committees of local federations of hang gliding. Besides flying a self-built devices should be performed only after examination by the representatives of the technical commissions in the field. This decision was due to the need to ensure safety both during training and during sports performances and is intended to nullify the persisting injuries.

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A GIFT TO THE FIRST START

A GIFT TO THE FIRST STARTA GIFT TO THE FIRST STARTIt’s been over a decade since then, as avtomodelisty decided to make your sport all season and came up with kordovye model of the sleigh. Now, perhaps, it is difficult to name the author, the first such model: the necessity of introducing the lessons of the circles simple, affordable design that would combine the speed of production and the possibility to use the internal combustion engine, would the creative scope for the budding modeller and, moreover, would not be just “educational” (like, say, contour resonators), was clear to many.

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ANOTHER “POCKET”

ANOTHER Young innovators of the Moscow machine-tool plant named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze developed subminiature winch, dimensions of which (240X215X115 mm) allow to call her “pocket”. With its low weight — a little more than 7 kg, it develops a traction force of up to 1 T.

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FORE-AND-AFT ON THE HELICOPTER

FORE-AND-AFT ON THE HELICOPTERRepeated attempts to rework expense of building a traditional model helicopters RC, as it was with model airplanes and gliders, were unsuccessful. This is because model helicopters, free flight, built according to a single-ended or coaxial circuits with rotating engines, do not have what is called a case. Simply put, they have neither the nose nor tail. Therefore, any movement for them, all except “up” and “down” is the direction forward. And control of the direction of motion of the model helicopter without orientated in space of body and the speed control of the movement, is impossible without swashplate. His on free-flying and so-called timer helicopters and no.

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ON-ROAD AND OFF-ROAD…

ON-ROAD AND OFF-ROAD...Laureate of Lenin Komsomol prize of student scientific-technical society of the Moscow higher technical school named after N. E. Bauman is one of the oldest in the country. Founded in 1903 N. E. Zhukovsky, the NTO over the years of its existence gave the careers of many famous aircraft designers, scientists, inventors. Good memories most of them left their intended course of development of the NTO, areas for further research, which over time has gained followers, United in independent laboratories, student research centers. Thus, in particular, in 1949, in the scientific and technical society has a new creative division of student design Bureau, which from the very first days of its existence began to work closely with the production, scientific-research institutes. With the expansion of subjects, which was engaged by SKB, it created all new laboratory, a new student design teams.

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