The FAA Reexamines The 51-Percent Rule

This weekend, ANN reported the FAA has launched a committee aimed at looking over the way manufacturers and builder-assist programs help pilots who want to construct their own planes.

Joining us from Oshkosh to provide more details of that plan is the EAA's vice president for industry and regulatory affairs, Earl Lawrence.

This feature is in addition to our daily news briefing -- available in either a quick "Touch And Go" format, or an expanded Aero-Briefing -- where you'll hear these stories:

An emergency declared aboard the International Space Station...

This... as the world's first female space tourist goes into orbit...

And a military plane crashes in Nigeria... killing many of that country's senior military commanders....

...And more.

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 09.19.06 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program)

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.19.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)

ANN Special Feature -- The FAA Looks Again At The 51 Percent Rule: 09.19.06 (ANN Special Feature, with the EAA's Earl Lawrence.)

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