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E-FLITE/HORIZON HOBBY UMX PITTS S-1S BNF BASIC

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THIS MICRO AEROBATIC BIPLANE HAS BUILT-IN STABILITY Senior Technical Editor Gerry Yarrish helps swap out the Pitts' battery pack for another flight. Any comprehensive list of aerobatic planes has to include the Pitts Special. The Pitt's extraordinary career started in 1943 when Curtis Pitts set about to design an aerobatic single-seat biplane for homebuilders. Little did Curtis know that his diminutive biplane would be the airplane that would set the standard for full-scale aerobatics for...

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