51% Rule Top Ten List

On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:04:44 -0700, 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 Wataj

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