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Certified versions of the Pitts are now produced by Aviat Aircraft in Afton, Wyoming.It is available as the S-1 single-seater with an up to 200 hp (150 kW) flat-4 Lycoming engine and a 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m) wingspan, or as the S-2 two-seater variant featuring a 260 hp (194 kW) flat-6 Lycoming and a 20 ft (6.1 m) wingspan.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's S2 class was a steam turbine locomotive designed and built in a collaborative effort by Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, as an attempt to prolong the dominance of the steam locomotive by adapting technology that had been widely accepted in the marine industry. One was built ...
Curtis H. Pitts, father of the "Pitts Special", circa 1996 Betty Skelton's "Little Stinker", Pitts Special #2, hanging in the Smithsonian. Curtis Hardeman Pitts (December 9, 1915 – June 10, 2005) was an American aircraft designer , aircraft manufacturer, crop duster , and airport fixed-base operator .
Data from General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) Wingspan: 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) Wing area: 185 sq ft (17.18 m 2) Aspect ratio: 5.76 Empty weight: 1,900 lb (862 kg) Gross weight: 2,671 lb (1,212 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder radial engine, 450 hp (336 kW) Performance Cruise speed: 180 mph (290 km/h, 160 kn) Wing loading: 14.14 lb/sq ft ...
The ALCO S-2 and S-4 are 1,000-horsepower (746 kW) diesel electric switcher locomotives produced by ALCO and Canadian licensee Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW). [1]Powered by turbocharged, 6-cylinder ALCO 539 diesel engines, the two locomotives differed mainly in their trucks: the S-2 had ALCO "Blunt" trucks; the S-4, AAR type A switcher trucks.
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The Pitts Sky Car was an unsuccessful aircraft designed for vertical take off, by inventor John W. Pitts of Detroit, Michigan. Pitts filed a United States patent in 1924 for a propeller, "which will cause an immediate vertical lift of any aerial car to which the propeller is attached". This consisted of a "mushroom-shaped" rotor of 60 blades ...
St. Louis, MO — Pittsburgh, PA; Pittsburgh Express 1941 — 1942 Chicago, IL — Pittsburgh, PA; Pittsburgh Limited 1898 — 1903 Pittsburgh, PA — New York, NY split into New York Special and Pittsburgh Special; Pittsburgh Night Express 1900 — 1947 Buffalo, NY — Pittsburgh, PA; Pittsburgh Night Express 1907 — 1932 Philadelphia, PA ...