The Parker Fly came from the ideas that Ken Parker had regarding making the guitar lightweight yet strong. The neck is reinforced with an exo-skeleton of carbon fiber. The fretboard is also a thin layer of carbon fiber. The frets are stainless steel. Note that this was first produced in 1993 — so the Parker Fly was indeed well ahead of its time.
The trem bridge allows unique adjustments while supporting piezo pickups.
The headstock has a unique design that allows the strings to fly over air to the Sperzel locking tuners. It also has a somewhat radical upper horn shape while still following the traditional super-strat design style.
It was well ahead of its time. And like Steinberger, was ultimately sold to a larger conglomerate who removed some of the high-end features and made the guitar look more like other super strats.
The picture shown is the Adrian Belew Signature model, and this keeps some of the great things The Fly was known for and adds more features like a sustainiac pickup, RMC piezo saddles, 13-pin MIDI out connector, and a Variax out to integrate with Line6 systems. I don’t believe you can buy this model anymore, but when it came out — I don’t think it was flying off the shelves as it was priced close to $10K USD — in 2009!
Here is Adrian with his Fly playing a song called Drive: