SPORTS EQUIPMENT OF CHAMPIONS

THE GYM OF CHAMPIONSBefore talking about the first rocket model, a few words about its designer — Alexander Tarasov. He lives in a small Siberian town of Yugorsk (Tyumen oblast), employs a facilitator Fock firm “Tyumentransgaz”. More than ten years, rocketmodeler Yugorsk perform successfully in competitions of all levels. His son Alex was the winner of the Cup “Alex” 2001, and other graduate — V. Pirogov became the owner of the same Cup in 2002, winners of the Championships of Russia there were many students Tarasova.

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COMBAT VEHICLE

COMBAT ROVERThese small, agile machines can hardly meet now on the road. Except in remote areas, they survived as a Museum piece. And in the years of the great Patriotic war, these cars picked up shells on the front line towed gun or used as a staff. The American “jeep” supplied to the USSR in the last war, has become a symbol of military cooperation between our peoples in the struggle against fascism.

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FLEET ON THE TABLE

Pleasant to take in hands thoroughly made racing car. The leader of the group S. K. Fedorov pleased with their pupils: good work guys! At the Odessa regional station of young technicians more than sixty students build racing and radio-controlled car models, cars, electric cars. They added a miniature trace: built here. self-similar route with Read more…

MODEL AIR COMBAT

MODEL OF AIR COMBATThe main parts of the design-balsa ribs, pine spars and foam sock. Working on the model (or, as happens most often, on a series of models) it is better to start with the production with the help of Thermaltake it socks. Construction of the “ball”, melkosortnogo packing or foreign blue foam on metal templates cut blanks length of about 500 mm. the Best material, it is necessary to recognize, is the blue foam. Although it is more expensive, its advantages are invaluable – in the cut he almost has no pores. Hence, the increase in the mass of glue when the wrapping paper will be lower. In addition, at low density and stronger than other varieties.

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THE HEIGHT IS FIXED

THE FIXED HEIGHTTo rocketmodeler it is no secret that the easiest way to measure the height of the flight model triangulation method. It is based on the measurement of the angles between line of sight and reference planes. Is the choice of the reference planes and the measured angles is largely determined by the degree of difficulty of the subsequent trigonometric calculations of the height.

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THE WINNING STARTS!

Thousands of children are engaged in the sections of sports clubs DOSAAF, creating and testing a variety of model-copy, high-speed kordovye, RC — in accordance with his inclination. Miller southern machine-building plant Oleg Shcherbakov drew time model, And that’s the first good results of the “specialization” of the athlete-modelers Dnipropetrovsk aviasportkluba DOSAAF: he has the Read more…

FLYING UNDER THE ROOF

FLYING UNDER THE ROOFFor many school model aircraft clubs create room flying models is the only available form of modeling. Judge for yourself: the season of the competition model, as a rule, coincides with summer vacation, and autumn, winter and spring start model is quite difficult weather conditions. At the same time any sports or Assembly hall is a great arena for competition in the class of low-speed models with resi-nomotion. The design of the latter — the process is no less fascinating.

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