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 ...

Neil Parkinson took 15 years to build his Pitts Special biplane A pilot from Oxford who flies an aeroplane which he built himself has been named UK aerobatic champion. Neil Parkinson, 40 ...