“From Russia with Love.” Campy as the old Bond movie sounds now, we’re in the ’90s and things we love are coming from the longtime former adversary. In less than a decade, the veil has been lifted so we can exchange information and equipment with ultralight enthusiasts in the old eastern bloc countries. Antares is among the first commercial examples, a trike with Ukraine origin. Young designers like Sergy Zolzulia evolved their product in the face of very challenging source problems. When you lack America’s depth of mail order and local suppliers, obtaining certain materials is very difficult. You design around it and move on. Nonetheless, some advantages – like the availability of exotic stuff like Titanium – gave the USSR design whizzes a few extraordinary tools. Today, we have the Antares trike, a solid and trustworthy example of those years of accumulated design experience. In the European tradition, Sergei relied on standard trike construction, but he is able to impress with a very stout airframe employing Titanium components and low prices.
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