Maximum time aloft

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maximum Time Aloft (MTA) is a type of boomerang competition involving specially engineered boomerangs. They are launched high, and enter a stable hover. In the official USBA (United States Boomerang Association) competition throwers get five throws, and the times of the best three attempts are scored. Normally, the catch must be made for the time to be counted. Internationally, the highest time from the five throws is the accepted means of scoring.

These boomerangs are very efficient, and they auto-gyrate. These two things combine to produce amazing results - some boomerang professionals claim that their MTAs have caught thermals and ended up in different states.

Currently the maximum time aloft for a boomerang throw, which was successfully caught, is over half an hour in duration.