Does anyone recall ANY experimental aeroplane built by the current
leader of the Experimental Aircraft Association????

The organization's name is Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), not
Homebuilt Aviation Association (HAA). Your point in regards to our
second-generation President may be well taken, I don't recall him having the
aviation background to match his father's; but there is more to experimental
aviation than homebuilding. Classics, warbirds & Light Sport should come
quickly to mind, but did you know that many gliders are registered Experimental
even though they may be factory made? Perhaps that is why many of the glider
pilots I have met over the years are members of the EAA, even though they get
precious little coverage in the EAA magizine.

The gliders are registered Experimental as a dodge against filing the
paperwork by their rich spoiled European manufacturers.

Either type certification IS good or it IS NOT good. If it IS good we
should demand adherence and make Experimental non-Amateur-Built
operations really limited to their actual stated purpose. If it IS NOT
good we should get rid of it. If it is good for air carrier and
business aircraft and not good for personally owned non commercial
aircraft, which is what I believe, that's what should be stated and
campaigned for. Not dodged.