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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 ...
Curtis Hardeman Pitts (December 9, 1915 – June 10, 2005) was an American aircraft designer, aircraft manufacturer, crop duster, and airport fixed-base operator. He became widely known and revered in the aerobatics community for his design of the Pitts Special , a series of highly aerobatic biplanes .
The Pitts Samson was an aerobatic biplane designed by Curtis Pitts in 1948. ... Pitts Model 12; Vancil Spitz S1; Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era.
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 .
This category is for aircraft designed, manufactured or marketed by Curtis Pitts. ... Pitts Model 12; Pitts Samson; S.
Activist Curtis Pitts wants Kansas to return Topeka Correctional Facility, site of former African-American vocational school, to the Black community. Kansas turned a Black vocational school into a ...
An aerobatic aircraft is an aerodyne ... Curtiss JN-4 (1915) Curtiss F7C Seahawk ... Pitts Model 12 (Homebuilt - 1996) Pitts S-2 in low level sideways flight.