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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B  Posted: 30 Nov 2024, 11:30 |
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Username Protected wrote: Sweet! That’s worth showing off, Mark. Is that a 4 blade prop? Can’t tell if 3 or 4 from the angle. Three blade MT. That’s going to get replaced with a Hartzell Talon. MT is a maintenance headache
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 16 Dec 2024, 03:15 |
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Username Protected wrote: Can’t help showing off. Here’s mine Whoa! I know that plane paint scheme! Back in March 2014, I was in El Centro when Spencer Suderman broke the inverted spin world record in THAT plane! I can't recall the N- number but that's got to be it.
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 17 Dec 2024, 00:32 |
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Username Protected wrote: Can’t help showing off. Here’s mine Whoa! I know that plane paint scheme! Back in March 2014, I was in El Centro when Spencer Suderman broke the inverted spin world record in THAT plane! I can't recall the N- number but that's got to be it.
It is. I bought it from Spencer. Removed all the logos and changed the font on the N number. That airplane went to 23000 feet for the record. Thanks to a Penn-Yan engine with ElectroAir ignition.
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 17 Dec 2024, 01:57 |
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81 turns, that’s nuts. Good for him, however.
I seem to recall he had a dead stick landing not too long ago….landed at Whiteman or thereabouts.? It was the LA basin, not somewhere you would want to deadstick a Pitts! Same airplane, Mark?
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 17 Dec 2024, 02:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: 81 turns, that’s nuts. Good for him, however.
I seem to recall he had a dead stick landing not too long ago….landed at Whiteman or thereabouts.? It was the LA basin, not somewhere you would want to deadstick a Pitts! Same airplane, Mark? Nope - that was a S1C he was going to try for another record with. Two blade ground adjustable prop let go. The prop was never found!
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 17 Dec 2024, 12:39 |
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Username Protected wrote:
Nope - that was a S1C he was going to try for another record with. Two blade ground adjustable prop let go. The prop was never found!
Wow. I’m sure he’s a hell-of-a stick and an interesting guy  Met a guy when I was buying my Acroduster project who made two dead stick landings in his Pitts at Compton airport. Used to walk in the hangar and announce “I’m still here!”  Stuart Smith, great guy. Sorry to the OP for the thread drift. How’s the search going?
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 17 Dec 2024, 13:09 |
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Username Protected wrote: Nope - that was a S1C he was going to try for another record with. Two blade ground adjustable prop let go. The prop was never found! That S1C is currently for sale, too.
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 18 Dec 2024, 14:47 |
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Username Protected wrote: Get a Gamebird!
Faster than a Pitts, +/- 10Gs, enough gas to actually go somewhere, baggage compartment, smoke, and a G3X. A few used ones on the market.
Butch And about 300-400K dollars more. If you are buying, I'll take two! As it is, I am poor and will just stick to my S1S.
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Post subject: Re: Looking For a Pitts S2B Posted: 18 Dec 2024, 20:21 |
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Username Protected wrote: I'll take two! Ha! You missed your chance Ron  . It wasn’t too long ago Sean Tucker was selling 4 of them! and including instruction. Yeah, I can’t relate either
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