Ron Wanttaja writes:

If you are making an emergency landing in a small plane, chances are
that you don't have any fuel left on board to dump.

Well... as far as homebuilts are concerned, fuel exhaustion (defined as the
pilot running the airplane out of fuel) plays only a minor role in the
overall accident rate. During 1998-2000, only 4.5% of all homebuilt
accidents involved fuel exhaustion (including some accidents that occurred
during precautionary landings due to a low fuel state).

How many of "all homebuilt accidents" involved an "emergency landing"?
(I don't think we mean "landing" to include "falling to earth in pieces".)

BTW, do any homebuilts use easily-sheared tip-tanks (like some Cessnas and
Lears do)?

--kyler