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

Paper Boomerang Book: Build Them, Throw Them, and Get Them to Return Every Time — page 9
Australian boomerangs except for those in the last photo which are by English boomerang designer Herb Smith On the right side of Herb Smith's long distance boomerang there are two small circular marks near the tip Those are weights that were inserted to increase the boomerang's range The effect of these weights will be discussed in chapter 9 Boomerang Theory Also as you can probably tell Smith's long distance boomerang is not made of wood Modern boomerangs are made of some of the following materials ply wood Finnish birch Baltic birch or marine thermoplastics polycarbonate ABS or polypropylene composite materials carbon fiber phenolic fiberglass paxolin or Kevlar and alu minum Northern Territory 1950s nonreturning 30 inches 1 2 pounds Northern Territory 1960s