updated: 20 February 2012
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This web page has links to general information about boomerangs that is noncommercial and has useful information for craftsmen, throwers, collectors and hobbyists. |
North America National Geographic World has an online kids magazine
with a Introduction
to Boomerangs Web Page and Instructions
for making a cardboard boomerang. Kendall Davis
is the moderator for a yahoo website with boomerang
information called Boomerang
Talk. Pat Steigman has
a nice web page with a photo gallery of the strip laminated,
lap joint and plywood boomerangs that he has made. Visit the
Steigman
Boomerang Bag today. Pat has also established a
Youtube
Boomerang Video Archives with dozens of historical
videos. TVS
Boomerangs - Taras
Skibicky's web page with links to photos of his
boomerangs. View Dwight
Souder's web thread with information about Boomerang
Events and Science.
Australia Gunter
Wandtke has posted a web page for the Boomerang
Throwing Association of NSW in Sydney. Pierre Kutek
(France) has posted a wonderful memorial web page honoring
Art
& Les Janetzki and their boomerangs. David Schummy
has posted a web page with highlights from the 2000
World Boomerang Cup. Roger Perry is
publishing an E-Magazine called Boomerang
World for the International Federation of Boomerang
Associations
Europe Austria Andrea
Ganzera has posted the Motorang
website, with a small, but nice gallery of his boomerangs.
Also has downloads, links, FAQs, etc. Belgium Fast
Herm's Boomerang Pages - Herman
Peeters has created this home page with links and
pictures of his boomerang collection. Nicely done. Czech Republic Michal
Vejlupek has posted a rather comprehensive blog website
called SportBumerang.
This website has a tremendous amount of information about
competition events in the Czech language. Denmark Jens Krabbe
has published his Krabbe
Boomerang web page with photographs of the
boomerangs from his collection. There is also a page with
information about Danish
Boomerang Events in both Danish and English. Ulf Valentin
has a wonderful U.
V. Lightrangs web page with links to a photo
gallery, games and software. France The France
Boomerang Federation is a wonderful source for
information.about boomerangs. The Learning
Link has information about how boomerangs work, theory
and a lot more. You can even download a copy of the
Felix Hess
Thesis in pdf format and view movies
about boomerangs. Pierre Kutek has
posted a web page depicting his unusual
composite boomerangs as well as a page with
boom
links. This site also has a set of +300 boomplans in
a .rar format to download. Check out Pierre's web page
showing Georgi
Dimantchev's competition boomerangs and a special
web page honoring Art
& Les Janetzki and their boomerangs. Visit
Pierre's gallery of art
boomerangs by Pat Cardiff and natural
elbows by Jay Butters. Also, for competition
throwers who like to modify their own triFlys, visit
Pierre
Kutek's triFly web page site. Jacques Thomas
has posted a website with information (in French) about the
Jacques
Thomas Collection called " From Prehistory to the
Space Age". Jacques' collection is one of the best and most
unique in the world. Jacques has an interest in the unusual
and everything he does is fascinating with projects like
throwing boomerangs in Space (he had a French Astronaut do
it!) to detained studies of the boomerangs that were found
in King Tut's tomb (he did this himself) and activities in
the La Perouse Boomerang Club de France. Take a peek at what
Jacques has done with his life's passion on this marvellous
website. Also check out the Jacques
Thomas' mini-autobiography on the intertel website. Boomerang
Passion - a huge site where you can discover the
boomerang, read instructions about throwing, making
(more
than 150 plans are available) and decorating. You'll
find boomerang news (competitions, records), a directory of
130 sites about boomerang, many free downloads, a
newsletter, and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). The L'Ami
boom web site has lots of information about
boomerang history, plans, throwing sticks and more. Amiel Arnaud has
published web pages with instructions for making a Cardboard
Boomerang, a CD
Boomerang. and an Origami
Boomerang. Luc
CORMIER's has posted a rather informative Boomerang
Home Page with lots of great informaiton including
Luc's own cartoon gallery. Boz's
Boomerang Pages - Boomerang web page of Froment
Laurent. Germany Hagü
Nikolayczyk and Heinz Willi Dammers are producing an
internet based boomerang magazine, issued 4 times a year
with 32 pages in color. The newsletter is in German. For
more information, please visit Boom
Zone Newsletter. Stanislaus
Plewinski has posted the Harmony-Fly
web site with links to different German boomerang clubs,
tournament photos and a neat slide show depicting a
Gallery
of Plewinski Boomerangs. Oli Thienhaus
has posted a web page for the mighty World Champion
Young
Guns Boomerang Team. Gunter Moller has
small but very nice Tapir
Boomerang Web Page. Sascha
Winkler has put up a homepage with Photos
from German Boomerang Tournaments. Joachim
Rauser has posted the German language Bumeranginfo
website, a nice boomerang web page with links to plans, a
gallery, photos and a lot more. Holland Boemerang
NLR is a Dutch webpage maintained by Martijn
Koolloos, who works in the National Aerospace Laboratory
of Nederland. Of special interest is the Megarang
, a 1.20m giant boomerang made in composite carbon /
polystyren by Bart Harkema. Ireland Mark
Fulton has a small but nice web page titled How
To Make Boomerangs That Come Back. Mark lives in
Northern Ireland. Italy The Boomerang
E Lanci Firenze is a small web page with information
about the different competition events in Italian. Latvia Aivars Brengulis
has posted the Brengula
Bumerangi web page which includes plans, archaeology
and photos of his boomerang products. Switzerland B
AGGRESSiVE - An excellent web page dedicated to the
long distance event. This site was constructed by Lorenz
Gubler and Tibor
Horvath of Switzerland. It has excellent information
about long distance boomerangs: history, records, materials,
plans, airfoils, science, boom links, and a photo gallery.
Check out their Book
about Long Distance Boomerangs. Boomerang
News is a innovative news webpage that summarizes
everything from competition dates to boomerang design and
everything else. Frédéric
Declercq has published a boomerang page in French titled
"Boomerangs
Spirit" with: History, How to do and to throw, Fun,
Plans, Art Gallery, French Clubs, Records, Rules of
Competition, Swiss tournaments, rankings, list of
publications, Boom links, etc.
Asia China The
Flying Boards is a web page hosted by the
International Juggling Organization titled: "Flying Boards
Travel East with Dai Shucheng." This Chinese juggler is a
master who can keep several multi-bladers flying at the same
time. Japan Hiroyuki
Murata has posted another Japanese language web page
called Boomerang
Murata with information about Japanese tournament
results, pictures & movies. This is a very large web
site and worth exploring, even if your browser is not
Japanese compatable. Turkey Cem
Teoman has published a Turkish language web page
"Meraklisina,
Boomerang" with lots of links and photos. An English
translation is "magical stick, boomerang". Musa
Atlihan is the webmaster for a Turkish/English web site
titled Bumerang
Birligi Inc. Here, you will find a comprehensive
boomerang web site with links to records, a gallery, general
information about boomerangs and more.