I sent away for brochures, studied technical manuals and considered a series of designs, including a Pitts Special biplane, a miniature jet and an aircraft called the Long-Eze, which has its tail ...

Witness the sky come alive as the Pitts S-2 biplane, G-JPIT, performs jaw-dropping aerial stunts at the Eastbourne Airshow 2024. With its high-G turns, dizzying spins, and gravity-defying loops ...

Curtis Pitts, 89, who created the popular aerobatic biplane known as the Pitts Special, died Friday in Homestead, Fla., of complications from a heart valve replacement.

Having invested the requisite years of considerable sweat, some blood and, yes, a few moist-eye moments building a single-seat Pitts Special, the project was ...

This 1986 Aviat Pitts S-2B Is an Aerobatic, Competition-Capable ‘Aircraft ForSale’ Top Pick Even people who know little about aviation can identify the Pitts as a acro specialist.

Why has aerobatics pilot Rich Goodwin attached two jet engines - with 350lbs of thrust apiece - to his small Pitts Special biplane? "Because I can," he said, after leaving the garden shed where he ...

Two weeks after an aerobatics plane crashed in Harnett County, killing two Wake County men, the National Transportation ...

Built for competition flying, the Pitts is now produced as a single- or two-seater by Aviat Aircraft in Afton, Wyoming. 0 Comments ...

The Pitts S-2A Special aircraft, which had taken off from White Waltham Airfield, was being used to prepare Mr Castle to compete in aerobatic competitions.

He created Europe's fastest biplane after strapping two jet engines to the DIY aircraft - in his garden shed.

Why has aerobatics pilot Rich Goodwin attached two jet engines - with 350lbs of thrust apiece - to his small Pitts Special biplane?