Boomerang Intro
Boomerang Baby/Into £350 Special Offer Wingspan 74" Length 72" Weight 14ib - 17ib Turbine Thrust 12ib - 20ib After some months of working through several designs and various combinations of wings, fuselage and boom designs, Alan Cardash has come up with what we believe is the best flying ARF Jet Trainer you can buy!
The kit goes together quickly and easily as it is now an ARF. The reward for your three or four evenings building is a good looking, fully aerobatic 130mph jet trainer which will slow down like a big trainer for easy, short landings. It flies even slower with the flaps, ideal for small field flying, even off bumpy grass.
The INTRO is designed for the new generation of small 12 to 18 lb turbines such as the JetCat P60, or any light 12 to 15 lb turbine, which will give more than adequate performance with good verticals and stunning aerobatic potential. Every manoeuvre that you know how to fly is possible with this new jet, Loops, snaps, spins, inverted and all combinations of your favorite tricks. When it comes down to landing, you'll not believe the sweet, slow approaches and easy flare out.
Volkan Dil from Al's Hobbies managed to fit a JetCat P80 with a massive 20lb of thrust in this airframe. It was a tight fit, but after some trimming the P80 felt like it was designed for this plane! Even though the P80 is a heavier engine Volkan managed to balance the plane without any additional lead. Ali Machinchy test flew the plane and he said that the plane flys like any other boomerang! The P80 also gives a larger range of aircraft for your next jet, including a lot of the Skymaster Kits.
Fixed landing gear is supplied with the mounts for retracts already in place, giving you the option. A 2 litre plastic compact tank can be fitted in the generous tank bay. The balsa sheeted super light wings and tail are beautifully covered in Profilm. To aid your final trimming, some extra Profilm in colours to match is supplied in each kit.
Pilot Volkan Dil from Al's Hobbies 
Pilot David Burgin
Boomerang's fit easily into any car
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Boomerang Elan
Boomerang Elan £700 Wingspan 84" Length 80" Weight 18ib - 21ib Turbine Thrust 14ib - 22ib The ELAN is capable of just about any manoeuvre possible with a jet. It lives up to the Boomerang Jets ethos of an easy to build, fly and maintain jet with outstanding flying and aerobatic ability. Take off even on grass is from about 40 feet and landing similarly short in the hands of a competent pilot. Most of our testing & development was done from our 80 yard grass runway ensuring the Elan had to have those characteristics typical of Boomerang models. Steady and solid in slow flight at around 20 mph. it also has exhibited a remarkable top speed over 190 mph. It has been flown with turbines from 14lbs upwards and extensively stress tested in all flight conditions. The Elan has caused a stir everywhere it has been demonstrated.
Designer of the Boomerang Alan Cardash First designed by Alan Cardash in 2001, the original design for the Boomerang jet was to be a slower flying model than the currently available jet trainers, yet large enough to be easily seen in the air. It had to take off and land from a rough grass runway, and it had to be fun to fly.
From basic drawings to finished design, test flights and major flying events throughout the world, Boomerang has shown that this jet is capable of everything he set out to achieve. The result has by far exceeded the original concept. This twin boom
model, eight feet long with an eight feet wing span, is quite exceptional.
The construction is conventional balsa, ply and light ply, with obeche
skinned wings, and although it’s big, it disassembles easily to fit into a
car. In flight, it feels like a cross between a trainer and a pattern plane. At the British Nationals in 2002, Boomerang won the prestigious Windsock Trophy Shield for the best flight of the day on the public display line. And at Florida Jets 2002, it won yet another exceptional performance award. Ali Machinchy, the outstanding UK pilot, flew it on both occasions. Now the big version of Boomerang has taken a big step forward in kit terms. A complete redesign. The new ARF kit is totally new in every respect except for the amazing flying characteristics, which have always the most important aspect of every Boomerang design.
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Boomerang XL
Boomerang XL £880 Wingspan 94" Weight 25ib - 28ib Turbine Thrust 20ib - 30ib So far the XL flight testing has had everybody absolutely stunned. The speed range is just at the point of being hard to believe. Fast as h*** and yet able to fly so slow you won't believe it will stay up there. With a totally new design approach, for 18 to 30 lbs thrust turbines, the XL retains the slow flight and short take off and landing ability of the old Boomerang, but you'll be surprised at the higher top speed of the new clean, low drag design. At 94" span, the estimated top speed is 175 to 180 MPH with a 25 to 30 lb thrust turbine. Using optional crow braking some of the tricks an experienced flyer can do with the XL have never been possible with a jet before now. Knife edge flight, snaps and spins, (upright or inverted, of course) and hovering in a breeze etc. etc. At the same time it is so easy to fly that it is an ideal jet trainer!
The XL is a quick plane to assemble at the flying field. It also breaks down easily and fast to go in your car. Construction is unusual in that the fuselage and booms are fibreglass, but to keep the weight down to achieve the staggering aerobatic performance the wings and tail plane (stab.) surfaces are built up with an attractive spray painted finish all round. Two carbon fibre wing spars and use of carbon fibre in the built up structures gives massive strength, but the bare airframe weight is only 7.7Kgs. (17 lbs.) giving an all up dry weight of around 28 lbs. depending on the Turbine/Radio & servos/Retracts installation used. With the big wing area, the wing loading is between 2.1 & 2.4lbs per square foot, which helps to explain the performance. As with all Boomerang designs, there is complete access to the entire fuselage interior from the nose to the turbine via the virtually full length top hatch, so it is easy to carry out any maintenance required.
After extensive flight testing and revising details, Alan Cardash and Al's Hobbies believe that it actually does live up to the claim that it can out fly any other aerobatic jet currently on the market. The advertising shots and copy are not yet ready, but so many customers have asked about the XL since it has been seen around a few UK and European meetings that we are putting a few photos, notes and videos here to show the hype was all true!
There are two colour schemes available:
Alan Cardash's own Boomerang XL
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