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The Flying Knife, or "Spanish Dart", is just a relatively normal knife. It has no feathers or wings or the like, but it flyes in a straight line anyway - after you learned the respective throwing technique. It has a hole in the grip for the index finger, so you can induce a rotation around the length axis during the release. By that rotation, the trajectory stabilizes like a bullet does. Therefore it is called a gyroscopical knife.

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The Flying Knife or "Spanish Dart"
(Picture processed from Messer Magazin 1/2003 - www.messermagazin.de )

The Flying Knife is a modern patented invention, of the Spanish Physic scientist Paco Tovar. More information about this knife you find under   www.flyingknife.com .

Paco demonstrates the trick with the Flying Knife. With the index finger, during the release the rotation is induced. Zoom   2x   4x

Paco demonstrates a throw with the Flying Knife. The knife needs the first meters to stabilize, so it's better suited for long distances than for short ones. On long ranges, it clearly outcompetes normal knives. You can sticks it precisely over more than 20 meters. Zoom   1.5x   3x

World Premiere - the Flying Knife in competition against "normal knives". Mind, that it does not turn as usual, but around it's length axis. It always points forward. Participation in the contest was allowed, because the contest rules said nothing particular about the throwing style or the kind of rotation of the knife. More about that contest in chapter "Event calendar 2003 - Report 2002-08-31 " . Zoom   2x   4x

I wonder, whether this throwing technique could be applied to other knifes as well, namely to knives with a bar(?) <bar between blade and handle>, e.g. the typical Bowie Knives. Instead putting the index finger into a hole, you could press the index finger against one end of the bar, and thus induce the necessary rotation. (Well, I didn't try it until now, just speculate)

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Throwing instructions for the Spanish Dart, as delivered with it.

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