the Pitts Special family of aircraft has challenged and rewarded pilots for decades. While it remains a capable aerobatic machine, long after monoplanes took over the sport’s top ranks ...

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 ...

Jeremy Clarkson lashes out at pilot for stunt flying over Diddly Squat Farm in foul-mouthed tirade - The aircraft looped over ...

JEREMY Clarkson was left fuming when a biplane buzzed his farm, telling the pilot: “Fit a f***ing silencer.”  He took umbrage ...

Step gingerly into Brent Handy’s Pitts S-2B. It’s a biplane commonly referred to as a Pitts Special. The paint job is red and white in a pattern of rays and it’s exquisite. The wings are ...

Rich Goodwin, who lives near Malvern, has spent four years and thousands of pounds building himself the Pitts Special muscle biplane, which he often uses for impressive aerobatic displays across ...

Why has aerobatics pilot Rich Goodwin attached two jet engines - with 350lbs of thrust apiece - to his small Pitts Special biplane? "Because I can," he said, after leaving the garden shed where he ...

DULUTH — After flying her Pitts Special biplane straight up into stalls, performing barrel rolls and wowing the crowd with other aerobatic maneuvers, Jessy Panzer hopes girls in the audience are ...