Condition on images. 21 cm x 29 cm Page or cover of a Soviet magazine in 1980. This illustration, which depicts the Soviet combat aerosled RF-8 (GAZ-98) in December 1941, was created by the famous Soviet graphic artist, illustrator and native Leningrader Mikhail Vladimirovich Petrovsky. Mikhail Petrovsky is widely known for his high-precision drawings, diagrams and artistic drawings of military equipment. His works were regularly published in cult Soviet popular science magazines. On the back side is a young man driving a small four-wheeled red mini-tractor (motorblock with adapter) with a wooden freight trailer attached. In the background, a man cultivates the ground in the garden with a manual two-wheeled motor block (motor cutters). Aerosans RF-8 were created by the Design Bureau of the People's Commissariat of Navy under the leadership of chief designer M. V. Veselovsky on the instructions of the State Defense Committee of the USSR. A large group of engineers took part in the creation of this combat vehicle: II. F. Meyer, I. K. Chichkhiani, E. I. Melekhanov, A. A. Smolin, V. A. Zverev, N. A. Ronzhin, I. A. Kunyasv, A. I. Smirnov and many others. At the end of December 1941, the first batches of cars of the type RF-8, which received the factory index GAZ-98, had already arrived on many sections of the front. They were equipped with combat aerosled battalions. A distinctive feature of the RF-8-GAZ-98 aerosleds was that they were not equipped with an aircraft engine, but with a much cheaper serial GAZ-M-1 engine produced by the Gorky Automobile Plant. In addition, they were installed two-bladed metal air screw. The presence of a screw made of metal significantly expanded the possibility of their use. This car was passing through the woods, and forest roads were not afraid of it, where other types of aerosleds with a less durable wooden air screw could not be used. Combat aerosled RF-8-GA3-98 is structurally made according to the four-ski scheme, with two guided skis. The hull is semi-open, double, with a sequential arrangement of seats for the crew. For the convenience of firing from a machine gun installed on the aerosleds and to increase the horizontal angle of fire, the shooter was located in the front seat, and the driver of the car in the rear cabin. Immediately there is a steering column, foot pedals of gas, brakes, car swings, etc. Behind the driver's cab on a special pylon there is a rotor installation, at the bottom, inside the body, - a fuel tank and a battery.