Professionally built?

Roger (K8RI) schreef:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:40:47 -0500, Ron Natalie
wrote:

es330td wrote:
I searched controller.com for lancair and found an entry that says
"Professionally built." Now I know that a homebuilt owner does not
have to build the entire thing themself but I thought it still had to
be an amateur undertaking. How does this pass muster with the FAA?
The words PROFESSIONAL and AMATEUR are not mutually exclusive.
Get a dictionary.

It's strange how the word Amateur has been misused to the point where
people think of it as beginners or unskilled. IIRC it's derived from
Latin and means, generally one who does something for the love of
doing it, or they enjoy what they are doing.

No need for Latin, some knowledge of French is enough.
"Amateur" == whoever acts by "amour" i.e. "love".
Indeed "I love to be sysadmin" is not exclusive with
"I earn my living as a sysadmin", as can be seen in my own life.

But the words ARE exclusive when we compare
"I build a plane with the FIRST PURPOSE of gaining money"
versus
"I build a plane MAINLY because I love to".