What did they want in an economical little trainer, a PC9 perhaps ?
Well, no actually, just something that would replace the PA38/C152.
The build quality wasn't a patch on the Alpha 160A and I'm comparing with the very early build Alpha's.
One comment I remember from those that flew the Boomerang was the fact you needed a double jointed neck in order to read the compass, there were other comments as well but I don't recall them right now.
I agreee the Boomerang had a lot of promise but to say
"what a great little machine the Boomerang is" does not rfeflect what I saw and heard about it, unless, they made a lot of improvements.