Stinker". In 1962 Curtis Pitts set up Pitts Enterprises to sell plans of the S-1C to homebuilders. Certified versions of the Pitts are now produced by Aviat...
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Pitts Special may refer to: Pitts Special (aerobatic biplane) Pitts Special (monoplane) Pitts Special (roller coaster) This disambiguation page lists...
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aerobatics community for his design of the Pitts Special, a series of highly aerobatic biplanes. Pitts Specials dominated aerobatic competition from the...
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The Pitts Specials Formation Aerobatic Team is a civilian airshow team flying Pitts Special S-2B biplanes throughout the United States, Central America...
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Look up pitts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitts is the surname of: Alabama Pitts (1909–1941), American baseball player and convicted robber Allen...
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Pitts built a monoplane racer Special in the early postwar years. Pitts also built several monoplane racing planes in the 1940s–1950s, the most famous...
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Pitts Special is a roller coaster made by Gerstlauer for the PowerPark amusement park in Alahärmä, Finland. The ride opened during the summer of 2020...
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1997, Earl Pitts was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 years in prison. Prosecutors had requested only 24½ years. The FBI learned of Pitts' spying through...
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since the late 1970s. The aircraft was intended to compete with the Pitts Special. Designed by Frank Christensen, originally of Salt Lake City, the Eagle...
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film visibility. Pitt later said he regarded taking the part as one of the best decisions of his career. The film was screened at a special presentation at...
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of disability Splatoon 2, a 2017 video game for the Nintendo Switch Pitts Special, Two-Seat Aerobatics Biplane 2S (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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transitioning to powered aircraft to perform aerobatics. He built and flew a Pitts Special aircraft and later built his own Extra EA-230. Extra began designing...
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real problem". He was unable to recover from the spin and crashed his Pitts Special biplane into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast near...
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the crime drama series Sneaky Pete. Pitts grew up in Weston, Connecticut, the son of Arlene and Joseph Rives Pitts. He described himself as a hyperactive...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Pitts Special)
by a passing doctor. The baby becomes the protagonist of the novel. Pitts Special S-1S and S-2A airplanes feature prominently in the 1980 film Cloud Dancer...
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1983 and 1993. Pitts was born in Sheffield, England. His family was working-class, his parents worked as a joiner and a midwife. Pitts originally intended...
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Angelina Jolie (redirect from Zahara Jolie-Pitt)
Arminka Helic, who served as special advisers to Hague. Their collaboration resulted in the 2015 founding of Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic, a partnership dedicated...
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The Pitts Samson was an aerobatic biplane designed by Curtis Pitts in 1948. The Samson was designed for aerobatic pilot Jess Bristow. It was a larger variant...
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operating pre-1950s training aircraft, aerobatic aircraft such as the Pitts Special or any aircraft with inoperative flaps or spoilers. Often, if an airplane...
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in "special classes" before ultimately dropping out. He also did a brief stint at the Essex County Youth House, a detention center. In 2001, Pitt earned...
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Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved February 11, 2021. Marden, Duane. "Pitts Special (PowerLand)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved February 11, 2021...
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0 lb/sq ft (49 kg/m2) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Pitts Special Sorrell Hiperbipe Steen Skybolt Stolp Starduster Too Aviat Eagle II (Christen...
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mayor of Key West after intercepting a defecting Cuban MiG-23 with his Pitts Special in 1991. Following his death in January 2013, Fred was succeeded by...
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categories—specialist aerobatic, and aerobatic capable. Specialist designs such as the Pitts Special, the Extra 200 and 300, and the Sukhoi Su-26M and Sukhoi Su-29 aim for...
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invited Pitts, who was still homeless, together with Lettvin to live with his family. In the evenings, McCulloch and Pitts collaborated. Pitts was familiar...
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News and contributed regularly to 60 Minutes. Pitts was born October 21, 1960, to Clarice and William Pitts in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew up in a working-class...
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List of civil aircraft (section Pitts)
Pipistrel 801 eVTOL Pitts Special Miss Dayton Pitts Special Li'l Monster Pitts S1 Special Pitts S1 Li'l Stinker Pitts S1 Pitts S2 Pitts Model 12 Macho Stinker...
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the age of 76, just after he had test-flown an acrobatic home-built Pitts Special. In the book The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts/Seth, page...
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and Calais. A hard tarmac runway was created in 1984. David Purley's Pitts Special was also hangared there, in which Purley died while practicing aerobatics...
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Christensen after he was unable to acquire the design rights to the Pitts Special. Later that year, a three-man team from the company became the first...
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