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 highest performance MTAs ever made by Ted Bailey. It has 3 weights, one each in the dingle arm tip, elbow and lift arm tip. Only about a dozen of these MTAs were ever weighted, so this one is rarer than the other Bailey MTAs that you will find for sale. This MTA is painted solid yellow on the upper surface and is unpainted on the under surface. This particular MTA was made in 1986 and was statistically rated as the best performer (x bar = 3 sigma) out of more than 100 Mini-MTAs that were made in 1985/1986. This MTA was traded to Larry Ruhf at a tournament in 1986 and kept in his throw kit until his recent emigration to Costa Rica.