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    1. New Member Introductions

      A place to introduce yourself to the rest of us. We want to hear from you!
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    2. General Experimental Aviation Questions

      If you have general questions about Experimental Aviation or are new to homebuilts and have questions about how to get started - this is the place. For more Technical questions please go to the appropriate forum below.
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    3. Hangar Flying

      This area is for people to get together and shoot the breeze, tell stories, share experiences, and generally hang out with other aviation nuts.
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    4. Rules and Regulations / Flight Safety / Better Pil

      Are you new to flying or have years of wisdom to share? Post all your questions and comments about the laws that govern our sport as well as becoming better and safer pilots.
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    5. Upcoming Events and Trip Reports

      Fun things to do or places to go with our completed aircraft.
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    6. Member Project Logs

      A place to log the progress on your homebuilt aircraft or restoration project. NOTE: Only the creator of a thread in this forum can reply to it.
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    1. For Sale & Wanted

      Post plane ads, plane parts, wanted requests here.
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    2. Supplier / Manufacturer Announcements

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  4. Technical Discussion Areas

    1. Aircraft Design / Aerodynamics / New Technology

      Aircraft design, structures, and emerging technology that may or may not revolutionize our sport.
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    2. Tests and Improvements

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    3. Workshop Tips and Secrets / Tools

      Let’s discuss tools, setting up a workshop, or ways to make building more efficient.
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      Latest: CNC Machinist: If Machining a 2 Stroke Crank? Turd Ferguson, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:37 PM
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    4. Tube and Fabric

      Rag wing construction questions and answers are posted in this forum
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      Latest: Interesting approaches to cockpit cage construction? Hephaestus, Jan 16, 2020
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    5. Composites

      Anything and everything about composite construction.
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    6. Sheet Metal

      Interested in sheet metal construction? This is the place to be.
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      Latest: Revisting thicker skins for laminar flow pfarber, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:33 PM
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    7. Wood Construction

      Let’s get back to our aviation roots. Post your questions and comments on anything related to building wooden airplanes.
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      Latest: Pop rivets holding 1.5 mm plywood on 15x10mm spruce longerons . Good idea ? Speedboat100, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:36 PM
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    8. Firewall Forward / Props / Fuel system

      Let's talk engines, engine mounts, props, and plumbing. * Note * For specific questions about 2-Strokes and Auto-conversions, please see those areas.
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    9. 2-Stroke Aircaft Engines

      All 2-strokes, all the time.
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    10. Electric Propulsion

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    11. Instruments / Avionics / Electrical System

      Radios, altimeters, pitot tubes, static ports, batteries, GPS, etc....
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      Latest: Aircraft wiring with 12v ignition? Markproa, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:40 PM
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    12. Finishing Techniques

      Sanding, painting, polishing, pin striping, upholstering or anything to do with dolling up your plane.
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      Latest: Substitute for anodizing? Parylene wktaylor, Jan 9, 2020
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    13. Completions

      Let’s motivate our fellow builders. Whether they were completed yesterday, or 40 years ago, post your completed pride and joy here.
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  5. Specialty Areas

    1. The light stuff area

      If your plane weighs less than you do, this is your area!
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    2. Warbirds / Warbird Replicas

      Building or flying a replica Warbird? Want to?
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    3. Rotorcraft

      Helicopters, Gyroplanes, etc. Every aspect of the world of rotorcraft can be discussed in here.
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    4. Bush / Float flying

      This area is for folks who take their airplanes off-road or on the water.
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    5. Classics

      Classic aircaft chit chat.
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    6. Soaring

      If you prefer to have only one chance to make a good landing, talk about it here.
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      Latest: What do you think about "e-soaring"? henryk, Jan 27, 2020 at 8:52 PM
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  6. Auto Conversions

    1. General Auto Conversion Discussion

      Here is where we can discuss issues common to all auto conversions.
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    2. GEO / Suzuki

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    6. Chevy

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    9. Half VW

      If it had 4 cylinders and now it has only 2.
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