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The Pitts Model 12 was designed by Curtis Pitts starting in 1993. Pitts presented his completed design on his 80th birthday in December 1995. [4] The Pitts Model 12 is a biplane built using fabric covered welded steel tubing for the fuselage, and fabric covered wings with wood spars. The leading edge is made of formed plywood.
The Pitts Special (company designations S-1 and S-2) is a series of light aerobatic biplanes designed by Curtis Pitts. It has accumulated many competition wins since its first flight in 1944. The Pitts biplanes dominated world aerobatic competition in the 1960s and 1970s and, even today, remain potent competition aircraft in the lower ...
Pitts was inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame in 1991, [25] and the International Council of Airshows (ICAS) Foundation Hall of Fame in 2002. [2] "Ma Pitts", Willie Mae, passed away in 1998. The last aircraft Curtis designed was the Pitts Model 14, a large biplane similar in size to the Model 12, but no example was built during his ...
Many notable individuals in the 1960s through the 1990s and beyond created the landscape of modern RC modeling. These included many starting their own companies. The families of many of these individuals lost interest in continuing these businesses. The incoming supply of ARF planes from overseas made it hard to sell kits requiring assembly.
Stewart had flown RC model aircraft for many years and was very familiar with aerobatics, and at age nineteen, he flew an aerobatic aircraft for the first time, a Bucker Jungmann with his friend Chris Woodward. Stewart’s first airplane was a 1976 Pitts S-2A, which he sold in 2000 to buy a 1979 Pitts S-2S. He spent several off seasons ...
Pitts also built several monoplane racing planes in the 1940s–1950s, the most famous of which was the low-winged "Pellet" of 1947 and the mid-winged Special Lil' Monster & Miss Dayton of 1951. [ 1 ] [ full citation needed ] Among other one-off projects, he also built a two-seat sport monoplane called the Big Hickey .
Out of radio-controlled model boats sprang up a new hobby—gas-powered model boating. Radio-controlled, gasoline-powered model boats first appeared in 1962 designed by engineer Tom Perzinka of Octura Models. [citation needed] The gas model boats were powered with O&R (Ohlsson and Rice) small 20 cc ignition gasoline utility engines. This was a ...
M12 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, single tube, tripod mount. A1 plastic tube (M12/M12A1 use M8 HE rockets and M9 practice rockets) E2 Magnesium alloy tube (uses T38E7 HE rockets and T39E7 practice rockets) M13; M14 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, 3 steel tube, aircraft mount. M15 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, 3 magnesium tube, aircraft mount.