I’ve never actually understood how they can return to the thrower.
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A boomerang is two devices crammed into one– a wing and a gyroscope. The wing generates lift (meaning the force that holds it up). A gyroscope, however, is a spinning device that when you try to change the axis it is spinning around, instead the axis itself rotates in a different direction. In other words, the lift, applied to spinning object also forces it to change it’s heading. Learning to throw a boomerang involves adjusting the angles it’s thrown at and the rate of spin so that the forces balance, resulting in the boomerang flying around in a large circle at relatively constant height.
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