On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:57:36 -0500, Dan wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Lot of stuff lately about revisions/modifications to the FAA's enforcement of
the 51% rule.

We don't really need it. Here are the Top Ten Ways an Inspector Knows that an
Amateur Builder Constructed the Aircraft:

10. Bloodstains on plans seem to emphasize the middle digit
9. Builder knows how to pronounce "Bingelis"
8. Shop has at least one piece of hardware inadvertently attached to the floor
7. "Hired Gun" shop pin-up: Claudia Schiffer. Homebuilder shop pin-up: Burt
Rutan
6. Builder owns no clothing without bits of wood, aluminum, and/or epoxy stuck
to them
5. Whole 'nother airplane in the scrap bin
4. At least one template made out of a pizza box
3. Bumper on builder's car held on by clecos
2. EAA Technical Counselor's phone number on telephone speed dialer

And finally, the Number 1 way an FAA inspector knows that an Amateur built the
aircraft:

1. The builder's children look like the UPS deliveryman!

Ron Wanttaja

Hand tools embedded in the wall and divorce papers don't count?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

no. all paperwork can be forged and a real builder forgot to fill his
out. he has lots of construction photos although he doesnt appear in
any of them. but no paperwork.

building appeases the soul so well that he never throws stuff at the
wall. it is all glued on the bench near the corner of the last
fibreglass component.

oh builders never buy lollies. chewing the bits of glue off the back
of the hands and the side of the index finger keep the regular builder
fully satisfied.

and the lemon tree growing beside the workshop door never needs urea
fertiliser.

Stealth Pilot