Suderman was cruising at 7,500 feet on his way to Yuma, Arizona, when his propeller suddenly departed the Pitts S-1C biplane he was ... World Record for the most inverted spins, 98 of them ...

Plus they ran inverted starts—the slow planes ... “so I’ve got to make it go faster than he went.” Today Pitts Specials dominate the Biplane Class hangar. Some are homebuilt; others ...

A St. Petersburg man suffered minor injuries Thursday after his brand-new biplane ... a.m. when his Pitts single-engine, single-seat plane "rolled right, came to the ground, inverted and slid ...

Not so for Spencer Suderman, who takes his lightweight Sunbird S-1x acrobatic biplane as high as he can go just to see how many inverted flat ... 21,000 feet in the Pitts S-2B he used for airshows ...

The Pitts S-2 G-JPIT stole the show at the Eastbourne ... In this video, I capture the raw power and precision of this muscle biplane as it flips, rolls, and dives through the sky like it ...

Curtis Pitts, 89, who created the popular aerobatic biplane known as the Pitts Special, died Friday in Homestead, Fla., of complications from a heart valve replacement. The Smithsonian Institution ...

Having invested the requisite years of considerable sweat, some blood and, yes, a few moist-eye moments building a single-seat Pitts Special ... I push the diminutive biplane out into the sunlight ...

The Pitts biplane had been specially modified to carry ... The two spotters saw Scholl take his special Pitts S-2 into an inverted spin at 4,000 feet. At 3,000 feet, they heard Scholl's voice ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — A pilot and passenger walked away with minor injury when their Pitts biplane crash-landed in a field east of Oceanside Municipal Airport and flipped upside down Tuesday.

Witness the sky come alive as the Pitts S-2 biplane, G-JPIT, performs jaw-dropping aerial stunts at the Eastbourne Airshow 2024. With its high-G turns, dizzying spins, and gravity-defying loops ...