A Quater Mile Throw ...
World Class thrower Erin Hemmings broke the Guinness World Record of the "longest throw of an object without any velocity-aiding feature" on July 14, 2003 using an Aerobie Pro ring. The distance?
An Amazing 1,333 feet (406 meters). That more than 4 football fields !

During the 70's and early 80's while working as a consulting engineer and teaching part time at Stanford University, Alan Adler invented toys in his spare time and licensed his ideas to toy companies. Alan was also an avid sailor who taught himself aerodynamics in order to be able to design sailboats. His love of inventing toys and his new found knowledge of aerodynamics led him into the pursuit of better flying toys. He began his interest in flying toys by studying ways to improve conventional flying discs that are descendents of the old Frisbee pie tins. His analysis and experimental work led him to the discovery that flying rings rather than discs have an advantage when it comes to balancing aerodynamic lift over a wide range of speeds. His work led him to a series of flying ring inventions. The first was the Skyro ring that he licensed to Parker Brothers. Alan designed and built the first prototype of the Aerobie ring with its spoiler rim that balances lift over a wide range of throwing speeds in early 1984. The first throw of the Aerobie ring on Roble Field at Stanford showed Alan he had something special. The ring flew straight and true for an incredible distance, "as if sliding on an invisible sheet of ice." Read More About Aerobie And There History

Why does the Aerobie Pro ring fly farther than any other thrown object? There are really two key reasons Aerobie rings fly so far. First is their thin profile. Aerobie rings are only about 1/8 of an inch (3mm) thick so when thrown, they really slice through the air creating very little drag. A typical Frisbee is over an inch thick. The second reason is the patented spoiler rim design keeps the center of aerodynamic lift at the center of an Aerobie ring throughout the different speeds of a typical throw. In layman's terms, the rings fly straight at the highest velocity at the beginning of a throw all the way to when it slows at the end of the throw. This is not true for conventional flying discs which often veer off course as they slow. Would a bigger ring fly even farther? Why don't you make an even larger ring? Yes, it is probably possible to make a bigger and heavier ring that could be thrown farther if thrown by a strong thrower. Unfortunately, the economic realities are that we must make products that will sell enough to justify their required investment. Most of us are not world class throwers and even those that are enjoy playing with our current size rings and are not necessarily trying to throw the maximum distance most times out. A larger ring would also be difficult to get placed in retail stores. A larger ring would require larger peg board display space and would have a high price. A retailer demands more sales from a product that occupies a larger area in his store and yet a higher price would probably reduce sales volume. Why is the Aerobie Orbiter boomerang triangle-shaped? When a traditional two sided boomerang is spinning and flying toward you, it can be tricky to catch because the missing side may be toward you at the moment you try to grab the boomerang. By making the Orbiter boomerang three sided, we made sure there is always a side toward you when reaching to catch the boomerang.