Hi All,

I have read over the circular on the 51% rule. I have a question. But let me digress first.

My wife like's Ercoupe's. But, it will never work for our mission of flying around the USA for a year when we retire. However, in researching Ercoupe's, I ran across something really odd. A couple of guys in the late 1940's Siamese two Ercoupe's together. See http://ercoupe.com/story_4.php

If I wanted to build this aircraft and did it from nothing but smallest individual parts, what is the chance that my local FISDO would rule it on my side of the "gray area" in the rule? Is such an aircraft radically different enough so that like a kit if I start with everything in parts and use different engines and controls and skin it with aluminum not rag and on and on...I could get t by?

Thanks, JD