Earlier, rpellicciotti wrote:

Just as the homebuilt community is drawing scrutiny from the FAA over
professional builders of homebuilt airplanes, we find out that US
Senators are hiring builders to build homebuilt planes for them:

http://tinyurl.com/lbgc3

Senators plural? Possible, I guess, but statistically unlikely. Anyhow,
quoting from the article:

...Finnerty said the plane, which he described
as a "tail dragger," was built for the senator
by a professional a few years ago...

Yup, smoking guns don't get much smokier...

After his Grumman Tiger shed its prop inflight in 1999, Inhofe
expressed interest in buying Stephan Wilkinson's Falco F.8L. Stephan
turned him down:

http://www.seqair.com/Hangar/Wilkins...fe/Inhofe.html

Bob K.