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I can aaaaaalmost tell what it is ...

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maynes32

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Okay, so I found a beat-to-heck Innova disc today. The weight and model abbreviation notation in the middle have long since departed this world. However, the top imprint is almost readable, and looks reminiscent of one I've seen before, but I can't remember what ... The visible text curving below the middle appears to say "FLYING FY..."

There are two pics attached, one of the imprint and one of the profile. The flight is solidly understable, even for my meagre arm, but it seems like that might be an artifact of it being so beat up. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance,

BLM
 

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Something in me wants to say that it is a kite just based on appearance and the nice dome that thing has. Even though the kite is super understable from the get go, with as beat as that thing is it could be anything based on the afore mentioned flight path. Definately thinking DX plastic. My other option is a Leopard but I have no reference for that really and I do think it somewhere between a mid range and a fairway driver so that doesn't really help. That is my best guess.
 
Wifes kite:
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Gazelle not domey...that thing has a kite dome but not the right flightplane.
 
For further reference, it definitely seems to get driver-like distance. I can throw it comparable distance to my XL, at the very least.
 
The stamp is an old Flying Eye stamp. Flying Eye was a golf disc distributor in Clearwater, FL that sponsored Ken Climo. The Flying Eye stamped discs were pretty common back in the day. What you can see is the outline of a bloodshot eyeball. It had wings and said "Flying Eye, Clearwater" underneath. I'll look around and see if I can find one in the stash with a good version of the stamp to post later.

It's hard to tell from a picture of a thrashed disc what it is. From the age I'd guess it is, look at the diameter and read the underside tooling. If it has a 21.7cm diameter and says "Ontario," that would eliminate all the new discs and narrow down the guesses.
 
Here is what the stamp would look like if it had survived. It was a really common stamp in the 90's, they put it on pretty much every Innova disc.
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Three Putt said:
The stamp is an old Flying Eye stamp. Flying Eye was a golf disc distributor in Clearwater, FL that sponsored Ken Climo. The Flying Eye stamped discs were pretty common back in the day. What you can see is the outline of a bloodshot eyeball. It had wings and said "Flying Eye, Clearwater" underneath. I'll look around and see if I can find one in the stash with a good version of the stamp to post later.

It's hard to tell from a picture of a thrashed disc what it is. From the age I'd guess it is, look at the diameter and read the underside tooling. If it has a 21.7cm diameter and says "Ontario," that would eliminate all the new discs and narrow down the guesses.
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always a fountain of knowledge!! im beggining to think three putt knows more on disc golf history than the manufacturers themselves....i could listen to this guy all day long, and still have a lot to learn
 
It looks like an old viper, but if it's understable, it's probably not a viper, no matter how beat it is.
 
Ryan P. said:
It looks like an old viper, but if it's understable, it's probably not a viper, no matter how beat it is.
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A Viper or Raven was my first thought, but I really have not held either one in a long time and I'm too lazy to go out to the garage to look!
 
I'm going out on a limb and going with Eagle.
 
I am going to have to agree with Three Putt on it being a Raven. I pulled one out of the storage box in my closet and compared the profiles. They are very similar. I also tried a Pegasus, Ace, Gazelle, Viper and Cheetah. Some were close, but not as much as the Raven.
 
It does, indeed, have an Ontario, Cal stamp on the back. It is about 8 3/8" or 21.4 cm in diameter.

Thanks for all the help so far! The "Flying Eye" thing is really interesting!

BLM
 
Isn't Ontario still making discs? Or is there some kind of major surplus from there...I have gotten several discs from there.
 
billnchristy said:
Isn't Ontario still making discs? Or is there some kind of major surplus from there...I have gotten several discs from there.
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Ontario, CA isn't necessarily where the disc was made, it's where the mold was made. There are molds that were made while Innova was in Ontario, but that are produced in the current facility in Rancho C. AFAIK, all discs from Innova are currently made in Ranch C.
 
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