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    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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    biplaneforum.com/ [3] https://www.facebook.com/PittsFM/ "Curtis Pitts, 89; Creator of Popular Pitts Special Aerobatic Biplane". Los Angeles Times. 12 June...
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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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  • Look up pitts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pitts may refer to: Allen Pitts, American born Canadian football player Antony Pitts (1969), British...
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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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    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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    organization. As a player, Pitts threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg). Pitts signed with St. Louis as...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved February 11, 2021. Marden, Duane. "Pitts Special  (PowerLand)". Roller Coaster DataBase. Retrieved February 11, 2021...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • of disability Splatoon 2, a 2017 video game for the Nintendo Switch Pitts Special, Two-Seat Aerobatics Biplane This disambiguation page lists articles...
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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,...
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  • August 22 – Prairie Air '93 Air Show – (Bloomington, Illinois) – A Pitts Special flown by Charlie Wells crashed while performing a Lomcevak. Wells was...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • stunts such as inverted ribbon cuts. His LB-1 was comparable to the Pitts Special flown by Betty Skelton at the same shows. The aircraft performed from...
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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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