Oliver Arend wrote:
After reading

http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/l...dia/Zodiac.pdf

I'm wondering how much trouble is hidden in other kitplane designs?
Obviously, the RV fleet seems to be rather untroubled....

Obviously?

http://www.kalinskyconsulting.com/rvproj/nosegear.htm

I've been looking at homebuilt accidents for quite a while now. I got
into it hoping to find, among other things, common threads in accidents
that might indicate design flaws. As it turns out, clear-cut cases are
rare.

One factor is probably the relative scarcity of most homebuilt types,
which reduces the sample size. Its hard to spot trends from ~5
accidents per year for a given type, especially when over half of them
are going to be due to pilot error.

Ron Wanttaja