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I'm working with EAA Chapter 105, encouraging them to digitize and make some of the documents in the George Bogardus archive available on their public website. There's a chance that the Bogardus document archive will be donated to the Oregon Aviation Historical Society. I'm also discussing digitization and hosting with the OAHS. Hopefully, these documents will be made available online in the near future. Currently, all past issues of EAA Sport Aviation and some issues of the Experimenter magazine are available online. However, EAA (national) membership is required to access them. I've mentioned the accessibility issue to EAA national. The older issues of the Experimenter, cited in this article, have been digitized but are not hosted at this time. Digital copies of the older Experimenter can be requested from the EAA. I used a journal template for these citations with the hope that they will be made available to the public. Riedener (talk) 17:58, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reading this as part of learning to be a wikipedia editor, the style of the article comes across as a more detailed history of experimental aviation than of Bogardus. Consider separating out general events that he was part of (folding these into the AAA and EAA pages, and linking them here). RadMan1010 (talk) 12:39, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, also a new editor here. Paragraphs 2-5 definitely sounds more like it would belong on a separate article about the AAA, or perhaps some parts could be added to homebuilt aircraft. Some of the later sections also seem to refer mainly to other people known for homebuilt aircraft. RF-enthusiast (talk) 20:44, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, the article has very little actual biographical content and needs rewriting if it is to stay under this title. Heavy Grasshopper (talk) 10:58, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Cleaned up some tone/peacocking but do not have the bandwidth right now for a full rewrite. Also not sure the paragraph on Les is relevant; needs to either be removed or we need more background as to why he is important (in which case he might need his own article).

Overall, this article reads like it wants to be a history of the AAA, with included biographical paragraphs on relevant figures including Bogardus. Crmccull000 (talk) 23:58, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I plan to write a separate article about Les Long. I feel Les Long is important since the facts show that GB's success built on Les' work. Les designed GB's airplane, Les created an organization that preceded the AAA, and he mentored GB. This article contains all known material. Other than Les' bio I don't think there's enough material to write separate articles. Two of my goals were to: clarify inaccuracies that exist in contemporary versions of the story, and include references to historical articles that were more accurate. Thanks for the feedback. Chris (original author). Riedener (talk) 20:55, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]