Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
As part of the stall study, I'm looking how often the pilots of specific homebuilt types accidentally stall as part of the accident sequence. I've got it broken down into two basic categories: Stalls that occur out of normal operation, and stalls that happen during the forced landing subsequent to an engine failure.

I think it's an important distinction.
I'm not sure there's a distinction to be made. An engine failure is a dramatic distraction, but if one doesn't understand angle of attack, any distraction will do. I suspect those other inadvertent stalls are precipitated by some lesser distraction.

An unintentional stall says more about pilot training and/or testing than about aircraft design. Anyway, there's a more direct method to evaluate a design: have it test-flown by someone with experience in a variety of aircraft and ask whether it did anything weird.

Different types of planes appeal to different types of pilots, which could account for some variation in frequency of stall accidents. I don't think it's fair to blame the designer for the faults of the pilots who like it.