Item PW5
This Item was Sold on 20 May 2019
for $52
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This is the Midi-MTA, the most popular MTA boomerang in the last half of the 1980s and early 1990s. This MTA was made in 1990 when Ted worked for General Electric Aircraft engines located in Cincinnati, Ohio. This MTA was made with a finish of clear Polyurethane, tuned and flight tested and then mailed to Australia to be painted by John Gibney, Sr., a well known artist who lost an arm as a veteran in the Pacific theatre of World War II. John painted with MTA with Australian Aboriginal style art and then mailed it back to the USA. This MTA boomerang has been in a private collection for 25+ years and is in new condition. It may require fine tuning for your throwing preferences if you are going to actively use it. A nice collectible. This MTA model has not been made since the 1990s.
Ted Bailey is a retired Aerospace Engineer who has been making and throwing boomerangs since the early 1970s. The first boomerangs that he marketed were multi-bladers that he sold on the C.S.U. Sacramento campus in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s, Ted sold traditional boomerangs at the West Palm Beach Mall. In the early 1980s, Ted moved to Ohio and became an active Ohio tournament competitor. He developed a line of miniature boomerangs that performed well in competition. In the mid 1980s, new products included lap joint boomerangs made out of exotic woods and high performance competition boomerangs, especially Fast Catch and MTA. Ted was active in the USBA and served as Secretary, President and as a board member in the 1980s. He was the editor of the USBA newsletter, Many Happy Returns, for two decades and also produced two independent publications: Boomerang Journal and Boomerang News. Ted is involved in internet marketing of boomerang products (this internet catalog) and teaching math, physics and flight science in private schools located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Find out more about Ted Bailey on the About Ted Bailey web page. |
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