Classic "Wooden Boomerang"
- Experience the fun & clever ingenuity of the Australian outback with this "Wooden Boomerang"
- Simply
find yourself an open area & let the boomerang go for a spin--no
need to chase after it, because it will come right back to you!
- Throwing instructions included
- Flight range approximately 30 yards
- 17 inches wide
- Boomerangs are probably the first heavier than air flying machine ever invented by human beings.
- In
1909 the Ngarrindjeri genius depicted on the Australian $50 note, David
Unaipon, patented an invention for a rotary wing aircraft based on his
study of boomerang aerodynamics.
- The oldest Australian
Aboriginal boomerangs are 10,000 years old, but older hunting sticks
have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of
the stone age arsenal of weapons.
- One boomerang that was
discovered in a cave in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland was made of
mammoth's tusk & is believed, based on AMS dating of objects found
with it, to be about 30,000 years old.
- King Tutankhamun, the
famous Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who died over 3,000 years ago, owned a
collection of boomerangs of both the straight flying (hunting) & the
returning variety
Good Condition!! It has scuffs and scratches from normal use. Clean!!
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