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Even though the Pitts is no longer competitive at the elite level, it is still popular for training, sport flying, and airshow performances.
Police say emergency services were called to reports a plane known as a Pitts Special aerobatic aircraft had lost control while conducting a demonstration and crashed into the tarmac about 5:15pm ...
Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at a pilot who repeatedly flew over his Oxfordshire farm while performing aerial stunts. The 64-year-old took to Instagram to complain about the disturbance, sharing a ...
He said to The Sun, “I’ve written to Mr Clarkson to say I’m sorry and didn’t mean to cause any problems. I was practising my ...
Thousands of motorsports fans from the Territory and further afield crowded into Hidden Valley for a weekend full of racing ...
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Why Do People Still Fly Biplanes?
Many people are aware—consciously or instinctively—that the world’s first successful powered aircraft flight took place in a biplane. The Wright Flyer, first flown at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in ...
Even in two-seat form, the Pitts is a small aircraft. As you get closer, it gets smaller still, a stubby fuselage sprouting model aeroplane-size wings. Are we going to fly in this toy – and is 6ft 1in ...
This is my story about building, test-flying and displaying a Pitts Special. A rather special Pitts, as it happens. The ultimate iteration of a series of aerobatic biplanes that started in 1946, ...
Described by IWM Duxford as "one of the world's premier aerobatic display teams", the Red Arrows will be taking to the skies ...
Hundreds of Supercars fans got up close and personal with their favourite drivers at the famous Track to Town.
JEREMY Clarkson was left fuming when a biplane buzzed his farm, telling the pilot: “Fit a f***ing silencer.” He took umbrage when ex-RAF ace and British Airways captain Mike Edwards looped Di… ...