FlisKits - Deuce's Wild (CL002) Gallery

Let me start what will likely be the mack daddy of all Galleries...

A Deuce's Wild in a modified 'Tour de' Deuce' scheme.

Humbly submitted to the mack daddy gallery....

As featured in the Fireball gallery. (no reason to upload the same photos).

rstaff3 said:

As featured in the Fireball gallery. (no reason to upload the same photos).

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Dick! the man said PIC's not LINKs! Sheeze!~

Here's a micro Deuce

My first Deuce, Jim Flis autographing my NARCON Deuce, and my October Sky Festival 2007 Deuce autographed by Homer Hickam and the Rocket Boys......

A coupla shots. Taken before I had a 'real' digicam.

After constant posts on the original TRF, I decided the Deuce would be a good rocket to upscale. First, I ordered a couple, one to build and one for part dimensions for scale up. The Tres had just become available so I added a couple to the order for the same reason. The Deuce is still flyable.

Then I built the upscale, at first just using 1.4" plywood for the fins. After the first flight shred, I rebuilt the booster, laminating the plywood with 1/32" G10 both sides. https://www.rocketryforumarchive.com/showthread.php?t=6010
After 14 flights, the booster body tube was so ragged it was time to replace the LOC tubes. I used the original Blue Tube and it's still going strong. The rebuild is here: https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=4380 The rebuild includes a camera pod mounted to the base between the motors. It takes excellant 720p video which I have posted to Youtube along with the ground view of most of the flights.

Onboard J210CL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CDEEkoVHN4
Ground J210CL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xwuGcBMDY
Onboard J230SK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjPTdl1daE
Ground J230SK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_vuAWqMXE
Onboard J330: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iNpmKIaQrI
Onboard K185W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWRNOWp0z4
Ground K185W: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqDxuNMifwU
Onboard J180T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCTijGiWTA
Ground J180T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPloC3IUpWs
Onboard J340M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I9twD32upU
Ground J340M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CpawdmH6EE
Onboard 1 J410: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfATKD1qlME
Ground 1 J410: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_uPeFFjn6w
Onboard Red & Blue J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6vUNQjjAIo
Ground Red & Blue J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP3KLdoCOr0

The next year, I built a pair of 24 mm Deuces, one is still flyable.

Just Another Deuce...

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A little modifyed. Nike Ajax Deuce.

The ORIGINAL and still the best! The FLISKITS Deuces Wild (accept no substitutes!)

Here's mine in its Egyptian scheme:

Here's mine. It's been around quite a while and it's getting kind of beat up but still flies great. Especially on Quest C6-5s.

I love the Egyptian scheme. Brilliant.

Here's mine.

It doesn't look nearly as good now.

It's a little beat up with a few dings in the fins.

I had to replace the top half of the body tube after it got crunched in an odd landing. It was coming down on a streamer (windy day) and the body was parallel to the ground and at the last second it flipped up and landed tube first on hard packed ground.

You can probably see in the third photo that the fins are canted slightly to give it a spin. On a calm day you get a twin spiral smoke trail.

Zeus-cat said:

I love the Egyptian scheme. Brilliant.

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Thanks! The Deuce is such a large canvas that I HAD to fill it up with something!

My LavenDeuce - daughter Becky picked the color, "This color ONLY Daddy!"

G.D.

Here's mine and the decal, nose cone part sets are available on my web site.

my first one , and a sucessfull launch with one motor.it flew like a crab but survived just fine







...and the Tennessee leg of the Tour De Deuce

Also, here's my 6 inch diameter upscale Deuce:

Me and it, along with Jim Flis (this was at LDRS 28):



Some flight pics:

MarkII said:

[blink]Hey, where'd it go???

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That's the idea

I've never put any electronics in it or anything, but it sims at >60G off the pad on the D24s, and around 30-40G throughout most of the burn. It gets pretty high too. I use an enormous streamer for recovery, since I don't think I'd ever get it back on the stock chute.

Here are a couple of pics of Deuces on D13s:

My first Deuce, built stock:





My reinforced (1 layer of 1/2oz glass, tip to tip) Deuce (this has also flown on D24s - it's had perhaps 15 flights, of which probably 10 are on the AT 18mm reloads):





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Here's my Deuce's Wild,24mm.Flies great on E9-6's.

So, is the total angle between the two motors 30 degrees?

CJL, are the smoky motors in your Deuce Smoky Sams or Blackjacks?

Wiley said:

So, is the total angle between the two motors 30 degrees?

CJL, are the smoky motors in your Deuce Smoky Sams or Blackjacks?

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Those were CTI Pro54-4g K530SS motors.

Wiley said:

So, is the total angle between the two motors 30 degrees?

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Yep, 15 degrees each

jflis said:

Yep, 15 degrees each

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On both cjl's and my 54mm versions, we had to reduce the angle to accommodate longer motors. At 15 deg, the motors would be limited to 2 grain. On mine, the angle is about 11 deg and I can use up to 4 grain motors (longer if I hang them out the back).

Rocketjunkie said:

On both cjl's and my 54mm versions, we had to reduce the angle to accommodate longer motors. At 15 deg, the motors would be limited to 2 grain. On mine, the angle is about 11 deg and I can use up to 4 grain motors (longer if I hang them out the back).

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True. Mine is around 9-10 degrees if i remember right, and I also made some motor mount placement changes to allow for up to 6 grain motors (I can fit the AT 2560 or CTI 6g cases, but they are the absolute limit)

Since Carl T doesn't post much here anymore, I don't think he'll mind.

These pics are from NARAM 45.

Hey, Jim, remember that last pic?

I remember those flights well! That was my first (and only) NARAM. I'm in the last pic as well.

sandman said:

Since Carl T doesn't post much here anymore, I don't think he'll mind.

These pics are from NARAM 45.

Hey, Jim, remember that last pic?

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Lordy yes! I remember ALL those pix

Heres my Deuce. Flew 07/16/11 Cmass. Burgundy w/ Cherry Red NC. Vinyl/Decals by Sticker Shock.