The Scaled Composites Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed by Burt Rutan, and built by his company, Scaled Composites. The purpose is to build a multi-engine airplane that does not become dangerously difficult to control in the event of a failure of a single engine. The result is an aircraft with a very asymetrical design, but none the less very breathtaking to look at. Elbert Leander Burt Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. ... Scaled Composites (often abbreviated as Scaled), formerly the Rutan Aircraft Factory, is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States and is headed by aircraft designer Burt Rutan. ...

The Boomerang was designed around the specifications of the Beechcraft Baron 58, one of the best known and most sold twin engine civilian aircraft. The use of the asymetrical design allows the Boomerang to fly faster and farther than the Baron can, while at the same using the same engines and seating just as many people^[1]. The Boomerang is powered by two engines, with the right engine producing 14 hp (10.5 kW) more power than the left one (the engines are in fact the exact same model, just rated differently) hp, see HP (disambiguation) The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...

Specifications (Boomerang)

General characteristics

• Crew: one pilot
• Capacity: 5 passengers, (1000 lb payload cabin)
• Length: 30 ft 8 in (9.36 m)
• Wingspan: 36 ft 8 in (11.12 m)
• Height: ft in ( m)
• Wing area: 102 ft² (9.5 m²)
• Empty: lb ( kg)
• Loaded: lb ( kg)
• Maximum takeoff: lb ( kg)
• Powerplant:
  • 1 × Lycoming TIO-360A1B, 200 hp (149 kW) (port)
  • 1 × Lycoming TIO-360C1A6D, 210 hp (157 kW) (center)

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Performance

• Maximum speed: 311 mph (530 km/h)
• Range: 2,362 miles (3,780 km)
• Service ceiling: ft ( m)
• Rate of climb: 1,900 ft/min (579 m/min)
• Wing loading: lb/ft² ( kg/m²)
• Power/Mass:

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• The Blohm & Voss Bv 141 is an earlier aircraft, from World War II, with an asymmetrical layout.
• Morrow Aircraft MB-300 - In 1997, avionics entrepreneur Ray Morrow and his son, snowboard entrepreneur Neil Morrow, decided to found an air taxi company. They settled on a modified version of Rutan's Boomerang design, which they designated the MB-300. They determined that the best business approach would be to manufacture the aircraft and run the air taxi services themselves. So Ray Morrow founded Morrow Aircraft Corporation and proceeded to design and manufacture the MB-300. In the meantime, they started the SkyTaxi company using Cessna 414s as interim aircraft.^[2]. As of 2006, the status of Morrow Aircraft and the MB-300 airplane is not clear. In 1999, Morrow Aircraft Corporation applied to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States for a type certificate for the MB-300. In 2000, the FAA published a notice seeking comments on Morrow Aircraft's proposal to use an electronic engine control system (FADEC) in place of the engine's mechanical system.^[3]. There is a web site named morrowaircraft.com, but it shows only a blank page.^[4].

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