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While while you do your best to minimize the efforts of those building low, slow, wooden, steel tube and fabric airplanes, they are out there. Construction progress for those builders is likely measured in years, not weeks or months. The aircraft they are working on may never be completed but the builders are just as much a builder as the guy that assembles an RV kit.
I'm not trying to minimize anything. You need to remember that I have more hours in ultralights than I do anything else at this point so I'm not exactly against the low and slow group (I just feel that it doesn't serve my purposes at this point in my life which is no different than someone choosing a Fly Baby over a Pietenpol or a Lancair over a RV-7). I am simply relying on upon the best evidence available that isn't a decade old although that study is interesting. If you have something more recent, I would love to see it but the most reliable data we have is those aircraft that are completed and registered since that is easily tracked. Perhaps a formal survey of EAA members is in order to settle this?