Boomerang!: Rutan’s Asymmetrical Twin

Popular Mechanics has a feature on Scaled Composites’ latest aircraft: the Boomerang, a Burt Rutan design whose assymetry belies its stability and performance.

There is a lot that just doesn’t look right about Burt Rutan’s 5-passenger Boomerang, the latest surprise to roll out of the hangar at Scaled Composites. The 30.7-ft.-long plane is a twin, but it looks more like a trimotor that lost its right boom and engine…With the Boomerang, I wanted to put many of the design ideas I’ve accumulated in the past 25 years into one plane.