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 active in competition. He developed a line of high performance miniature competition boomerangs. In the mid 1980s, new products included lap joint boomerangs made out of exotic woods and more high performance competition boomerangs, especially Fast Catch and MTA booms. 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. Currently, Ted is involved in internet marketing of boomerang products (this internet catalog) and teaching flight science is schools in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Find out more about Ted Bailey on the About Ted Bailey web page.

This MTA is one of the first MTAs ever made by Ted Bailey (c. 1985). It has 5 weights, two in the dingle arm tip, two in the elbow and one in the lift arm tip. Only about a dozen MTAs were weighted, so this one is rarer than the other MTAs you will find for sale. This MTA is painted solid yellow on the upper surface and is unpainted in the under surface. This particular MTA was used in several tournaments with first place results. This is a floater. When properly tuned, it stays up for a very long time, even in calm conditions. This MTA was traded to Larry Ruhf at a tournament in 1986. There is some extreme edge chipping on the razor thin edges of the lift arm. This is hard to see in the photo and it does not affect the flight at all. If anything, it only makes it easier to handle. This is an old, battle worn MTA from the very early days and was one of the very first boomerangs ever to achieve flights of more than one minute. This one was not sold commercially, but it was used by top competitors in the golden age of boomerang competition.