ROCKET GLIDER I. PONOMAREVA

ROCKET GLIDER I. PONOMAREVAAmong the best athletes rocketmodeler Russia over the last three years was included the master of sports Igor Ponomarev. Two years in a row he was the winner or prize-winner of many competitions in the category of boys. There was even a medalist of the world championship of 2002 And going into the adult category, Igor said about himself — became the champion of Russia in the class of models of raketoplana (Ѕ4В) and the second prizewinner in the class of rotochutes (S9B).

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BABY GEAR

BABY GEARSearching for the correct gear for mechanisms of control model of the submarine I looked through descriptions of many designs with the aim to choose the most simple to manufacture. In the end I decided to use as a base for such a worm gear pair from the trimmer. The most suitable turned out to be multi-turn wirewound resistor type SP5-2 with a transmission ratio worm gear i=45.

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“ROTOR” FOLD “WINGS”

Model rotocut of the champion of Russia 2003 G. A. Reshetnikova — further improvement of “sergievskoe” scheme, developed in tstt “Youth” under the leadership of the deserved trainer of Russia L. O. Krasnov. This variant slightly increased the angle “V” pendant of the blades (12°) and has an additional corner of the “V” at the point of kink (folding), which promotes sustainable autorotation.

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“AEROBI-100”

For the study of near-earth space in the United States since 1948, began to build rockets “Aerobe”. To date released a large number of their modifications. A two-stage rocket “Aerobi 100”, the description and drawings which we published, are very useful for modeling. It is easy to manufacture and available to the modelers for the second year of study. Its flight is quite stable and shows good sports results. It is possible to participate in competitions of any rank.

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Boatmen on the pond

Boatmen on the pondChassis model paddle steamer. Model river paddle steamer look so advantageous as compared with the model of a modern airliner, as a large-scale replica of a steam locomotive railway locomotive attractive copies of our days. A water suspension model “Kolesnik” the nineteenth century, looks amazing – plenty of add-ons “mast, pipe, efficient things – all this creates a mouthwatering flavor century couple.

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FLYING OVER THE TRACK

FLYING ON TRACKDesigning patterns, usually always takes place in several stages. It is almost impossible to make a decent model, once having passed a way from calculation and drawing to stitched wing Mylar film. Typically, this is only the first step in creating the model. The following will be the flyby of the model and its numerous improvements. And only when to improve the model through modifications, it will be impossible, on paper, a second version of the model, which absorbed all the best from the first and supplemented by all those. it was impossible to implement in the first version, with improvements. This is followed by overflights and…

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UPS — PATH IN AVIATION

WPS — PATH TO AVIATIONSo, we are continuing in # 10 of our magazine talking about youth glider schools. More and more young boys and girls are now bosom a small silver-blue rectangular icon UPS. Wear it with pride, as proof that they’ve spread their wings and rose to the first, albeit small, step in mastering the difficult art of flying… Here is one of them in the recent past, cadet, and now an instructor-social worker Moscow city UPS, fitter machinery plant, Komsomol Sergey Kurjak. Tall blue-eyed blonde with curly hair.

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THROWING OUT FOAM

THROWING FOAMThrowing gliders are very popular among novice modelers. The fact that the technological and constructive simplicity, these miniature models have performance of more complex models. Miniature aircraft when you start the cast can climb more than 20 meters, they held steady in the “thermals” and sometimes depart quite far from the start.

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