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Rules of Conduct / HBA News and Announcements

In an effort to keep HBA a fun and inviting place, please read the Rules of Conduct thread prior to posting here on HBA.

New Member Introductions

A place to introduce yourself to the rest of us. We want to hear from you!

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.

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.

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.

Upcoming Events and Trip Reports

Fun things to do or places to go with our completed aircraft.

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.

For Sale / Wanted

List everything you may want to buy, sell, or trade. Kits, tools, jigs, completed aircraft, etc....

Supplier / Manufacturer Announcements

Manufactures - Please post product news and updates here.

Aircraft Design / Aerodynamics / New Technology

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

Tests and Improvements

Workshop Tips and Secrets / Tools

Let’s discuss tools, setting up a workshop, or ways to make building more efficient.

Tube and Fabric

Rag wing construction questions and answers are posted in this forum

Composites

Anything and everything about composite construction.

Sheet Metal

Interested in sheet metal construction? This is the place to be.

Wood Construction

Let’s get back to our aviation roots. Post your questions and comments on anything related to building wooden airplanes.

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.

2-Stroke Aircaft Engines

All 2-strokes, all the time.

Electric Propulsion

Instruments / Avionics / Electrical System

Radios, altimeters, pitot tubes, static ports, batteries, GPS, etc....

Finishing Techniques

Sanding, painting, polishing, pin striping, upholstering or anything to do with dolling up your plane.

Completions

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

The light stuff area

If your plane weighs less than you do, this is your area!

Warbirds / Warbird Replicas

Building or flying a replica Warbird? Want to?

Rotorcraft

Helicopters, Gyroplanes, etc. Every aspect of the world of rotorcraft can be discussed in here.

Bush / Float flying

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

Classics

Classic aircaft chit chat.

Soaring

If you prefer to have only one chance to make a good landing, talk about it here.

Feedback and Suggestions

Let us know how we are doing here at homebuiltairplanes.com. Have a suggestion for a feature, a new category, or anything else? Is there something we could be doing better? Let us know here.

Technical Problems

If you’re having a problem getting something to work, or there is a specific problem happening in the forums, this is the place to post it.

Test Forum

If you’re using a feature such as smiles, avatars or links for the first time, try posting them here first to make sure they work.