Throwing gliders with a passion for design both beginners and experienced modelers. Draws here is that models of readily available materials to be not worse than those collected from scarce balsa.
for the fifth year I subscribe to your magazine and I like it very much. It is always possible to choose good advice, interesting drawing. I am engaged in ship modeling circle at the city station of young technicians. In 1977 he was regional champion, and twice winner of the championship of the USSR, and in many respects I was helped by your magazine.
In this competition almost everything was as really big car races: clearly marked and numbered paths, a huge inscription “Start” and “Finish” bright lights, signal lights, gambling, overlapping the voice of the broadcaster the cheers of the fans, overtaking each other swift cars. Still, the racing was unusual. They were not on the racetrack, and in the great hall of one of Omsk schools, and even the largest of launched cars easily fit in the glove box of the usual “Zaporozhets”. As for the racers, most of them have not had time to get out of the pioneer age, and some even from October.
The modelers are well aware, how difficult it is to make a model submarine. A lot of time is spent on installation and electronic equipment, debugging it, setting up steering mechanisms, so that the boat promptly sank and floated. And a disappointment for the team and shipbuilder, when she for some reason goes under the water and no longer appears. Then it is looking for divers and even divers. And not always successfully.
Graceful and swift motorboat is an excellent educational model for aspiring shipbuilders. Work on bliss allows you to develop basic skills that will be required in the manufacture of sports cars of high class. With these boats, if they do, you can arrange competitions; it is only necessary to equip them with outboard electromotorically and to provide a place for mounting a battery from a pocket lantern.
Victor E. Marina from Rostov-on-don from a young age engaged in the construction of models of free flight. In recent time, leading a circle of aircraft modeling on obsut, he became interested in the structures with circular drainer, discreto. However, to achieve good results for a long time could not — flying “plates” were heavy, clumsy, and most annoying, bad flying.
Over the past 3 — 4 years in the lists of winners of major Russian competitions in sport flying are increasingly common names “rocket scientists” of the Republic of Karelia. So, on superiority of Russia among older students, the 2008 champion in the class S6A became the student of Petrozavodsk Ilya Drats. And team the victory it celebrated, too, “the rocketeer” Karelia, which was represented by pupils of school № 45. Even in the same class S3A, they were third in the overall standings in fourth place, behind the team of Belgorod and Moscow regions and the Krasnodar territory.
European champion 1979, on models of missiles in the category of S-6-A X. Ignota (Spain). In three rounds it model showed the best result, and the fourth, additional, — 3 min.
The model is designed to compete in all-around in class F-3-B. Although the airframe is designed for domestic equipment ROOM-2, it can be successfully applied abroad.
Not so long ago in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” was about the simplest model of a glider made from a conventional packaging corrugated Board material although not aeromodelling, but it is durable, tough and light. By the way, a square meter of corrugated Board with a thickness of 3 mm has a weight of only 400 g, respectively, the density of this material is only 0.13 g/cm3! Experiments have shown that the durable and lightweight corrugated cardboard is well suited for creating flying models. Needed only in the cutting and processing of corrugated Board to consider some of its features and to use a knife-cutter, literally honed to razor sharpness, otherwise cut lines get ragged.