GIN Boomerang 10 - Manual (Page 34)

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6. Dimensions, illustrations, technical and CCC data
Description
The Boomerang 10 is a high performance competition wing designed from the outset for CIVL
Competition Class certification. It is highly optimized to achieve the maximum performance
available from a CCC glide, offering outstanding security, excellent glide and stability at all
speeds and outstanding sink rate and climb combined with precise and dynamic handling. The
Boomerang 10’s precise handling allows the pilot to maximize climb rate in thermals, and the
high cruising speed with great glide and stability allows the maximum possible average speed
around cross country tasks.
The Boomerang 10 is optimized to go further in cross country and to win competitions, that
optimization requires it to be extremely effective in all aspects of cross country thermal
soaring, equally at home climbing in weak or strong thermals, racing along thermic ridges,
gliding at high speed across still alpine valleys, or searching for elusive flatland thermals.
Cutting-edge Design
The Boomerang 10 has been designed based on the experience we have gained from Gin’s
continuous development program, starting as soon as the Boomerang9 was released. That 2
year development program has resulted in a Boomerang 10 that is an improvement over the
Boomerang9 in all areas of flight performance. The Boomerang 10 has better handling and
better climb, better glide and better stability (particularly at speed), and because of that
improved stability the Boomerang 10 has significantly higher certified top speed than the
previous model.
These improvements result from a detailed analysis and deep understanding of the aerodynamic
and structural loads within the sail in flight and better matching of materials and loads. This
improved structural design applies both in the careful matching of cloth weight and stiffness to
varying loads in different areas of the sail, and in the new rigifoil structure of the
Boomerang 10. The structural improvements provide substantial rigidity at the leading edge,
dramatically improving stability in turbulence, but they also allow a reduction in total line
consumption, which leads to better glide, handling and climb.
These and other innovations make the Boomerang 10 the best glider available within the CIVL
Competition Class.
Manufacturing
All GIN gliders are produced in the company's own facilities using the most modern techniques.
Highly skilled staff take extreme care during the entire manufacturing process. Stringent
quality control is made after each step, and all materials that go into each wing can be traced.
These measures guarantee that pilots fly with the assurance that their wing meets the most
exacting safety standards.