LATEST BOOMERANG ARTICLES
MTA Paradise
Throwing an MTA boomerang is a joyful experience. The nature of its flight, the hovering, the running, the catch. All these things make throwing a MTA boomerangs so special. Last weekend I met my team mates in Switzerland for a training camp, as a process for warming...
Dynamics of multibladed MTA boomerangs in laterally stable hover
The following article has been written by Manuel Schütz after the Autorotation discussion on twobladers came up. The ideas and concepts explained are revealing, but the open questions as well. The full article is available for downloading in the button at the end of...
MTA Boomerangs: ¿Autorotation?
Bernoulli and Isaac Newton Can we merge this two approaches for explaining lift? It is true that air, when surrounding an airfoil travels faster on one side than on the other, the pressure of air in the area where it moves faster is smaller than in the area where it...
Ted Bailey: The man who changed MTA Boomerangs
1. How did you get involved with boomerangs? The first time I saw a boomerang in flight was in Panama when I was 7 years old. Older boys had a cross stick that flew really well, but they would not let me throw it. When I was 9 years old (1959), my mother bought me a...
The Bra | Ket MTA
The concept behind the Braket MTA or better < Bra | Ket > MTA. I won MTA at my very first boomerang tournament and got hooked by it. Right after I came home from Viareggio 2001, I started making my own. After some attempts using birch plywood, I started using...
MTA boomerangs: how they hover?
First part of an introductory analysis of forces and effects on hovering MTA boomerangs. Thickness, lift, angle of attack, stall.
Article by: A. Palacio, M. Schütz, A. Sgattoni.
Interview with Alex Opri
Alex Opri is by far one of the most solid throwers out there. World Boomerang Champion in 2010, he has been away of the throwing fields for a few years but now he is back, strong and smart as usual.
Interview with Fridolin Frost
Interview with Fridolin Frost. 4 times World Boomerang Champion. A true inspiration for the new generations of boomerang throwers.
Boomerang Sport: a true passion
1981 marked the year of the first international competition when a team of ten boomerang throwers from the united states went to Australia to compete against them in their native sport.
History of Mtas
The history of hovering MTA ́s boomerangs leads to aboriginals, which used to craft small boomerangs made out of seeds and weeds to throw them into the fire.