Fliskits - Drake (FR004) Gallery

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FlisKits - Drake (FR004) Gallery

Welcome to the FlisKits Drake (FR004) Gallery on TRF.

This gallery showcases the FlisKits Drake (FR004) and those rockets derived from it. Particularly appropriate in this thread are the following:


FlisKits: Drake: FR004



as well as any upscales, downscales, clones, kitbashes or other derivative works. Even Goonies qualify!

 

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FlisKits Drake (FR004) Basic Information.

FlisKits

MODEL NAME: Drake Also known as:

NUMBER: FR004

Introduced:2003
Final Year:
Designer: Jim Flis, Drake Demera

Type: Futuristic
Motor Mount: 1x24mm
Recovery: Parachute
Stages: 1
Length: 28.12"
Diameter: 1.637"
Span: 12.48"
Weight: 2.4 oz

The 2003 National Sport Launch (NSL) featured a new collectable for which to remember the event. An anniversary kit called the Proconsul. The Proconsul was designed by Drake Demerau and Jim Flis and marks the FIRST EVER anniversary kit for an NSL event.

The resultant design was just too magnificient to let it fade away into the closets of the collectors so, with permission of NEPRA and Drake Demerau, FlisKits is proud to offer the retail version of this kit, the Drake, aptly named after one of its primary designers.

The Drake features large, forward swept wings with a stylish dorsal fin and ramjet tube along with a large (1.637" Diameter) parachute compartment to assure clean ejection of your recovery device. Unique and stylish holes placed in the wing tips and the dorsal fin can be left open (stock) or decorated with standard US Quarters for that rich look! The Drake flies on a variety of 24mm motors allowing you the luxury of flying in most any field size that you have available to you.

 

[les]

Here is my version.

The instructions suggested strengthening the wing joints if you planned to use an E motor. So I added some cardstock panels. Then added rivets and other textures

 

[Zeus-cat]

Quit posting stuff like this!!!! Now I need to get one.

 

[KennB]

Quit posting stuff like this!!!! Now I need to get one.

Good timing; free shipping on domestic orders over $20 for this anniversary month.

 

[Rktman]

Here is my version.

The instructions suggested strengthening the wing joints if you planned to use an E motor. So I added some cardstock panels. Then added rivets and other textures

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My compliments on the incredible customization! The model's design lends itself perfectly to the steampunk genre--congrats on the imagination to pull this off so successfully man.

 

[MALBAR 70]

I painted mine to look like a Mallard duck. I do like the steam punking though.

 

[les]

Nice

 

[kuririn]

Eagle Eye, Micromaxx version of the Drake.
Main fins should be sweeping forward, not backward.
Meh, it'll still fly.