Paper Boomerang Book: Build Them, Throw Them, and Get Them to Return Every Time

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Introduction Since the dawn of civilization men and women have been hurl ing things through the air But no other projectile they have ever fashioned and thrown displays such odd and fascinating behav ior as the returning boomerang Just as rainbows bubbles and waves are apt to inspire a sense of joy wonder and fascination so it is with boomerangs And although the boomerang is per haps just as strange and beautiful as these other simple things since it is a solid object it is easier to hold in one's hands manipulate and study This book will teach you how to make paper boomerangs quickly how to alter them to fly in large spaces such as audito riums or in smaller rooms such as bedrooms living rooms or classrooms and how to decorate them in a variety of ways The Paper Boomerang Book is for students parents and teachers and anyone who has ever been curious about boomerangs and wished to have a little fun with them The basic method of con struction and basic throwing techniques are set forth in easy to understand photographic illustrations You will find that the paper boomerangs in this book are a cinch to make graceful in flight and fun to fly In 1963 when Americans scientists were developing the space program and pushing the study of aerodynamics with the flights of the X 15 I saw a television program in which a professor of aeronautics flew a small four bladed boomerang It was about eight inches in length He only threw it twice hardly moving his arm but each time it zipped around in a perfect tight little cir cle He caught it so effortlessly both times that it seemed almost magical I was hooked If he could do it so could I I went down to the