U32Pitts_3d

About

The Pitts Special is the work of Curtis H. "Curt" Pitts, who designed the original Pitts S-1 in 1944 and went on to refine the design across multiple variants over four decades. The Pitts S-1 was a small, single-seat aerobatic biplane built around a simple recipe: short coupled, light, with high power-to-weight ratio, oversize control surfaces, and the kind of brutal directness of handling that made the type the dominant unlimited-aerobatic biplane from the 1960s through the 1980s. The two-seat S-2 variant (introduced in the 1960s) gave dual-instructor capability and turned the Pitts into the standard advanced-aerobatic trainer at flying schools across the United States.

Pitts Specials racked up an extraordinary competition record. The type carried Bob Herendeen, Charlie Hillard, Mary Gaffaney, Tom Poberezny, and a generation of other American aerobatic pilots through the 1960s and 1970s World Aerobatic Championship circuit, often dominating the event before the Russian Yakovlevs and German Extras began to challenge biplanes with increasingly capable monoplanes through the 1980s. Aviat Aircraft of Afton, Wyoming continues to manufacture the S-2C variant of the Pitts today, more than seventy years after Curt Pitts first built the prototype.

The "U32" prefix in this model name refers to a 32-percent (one-third-scale) RC version, in the Ultimate biplane scaling tradition that puts the type in the giant-scale gas-powered category. The unmistakable Pitts silhouette — short, fat fuselage; bottom wing slightly forward of the top; classic 1940s-styled tail group — is one of the most-modeled aerobatic biplane subjects in modern RC scale flying.

In the simulator

A demanding giant-scale aerobatic biplane. The Pitts in our sim has the characteristic short-coupled, twitchy handling of the real airframe — small wings, big aileron authority, and the kind of stick discipline that earned the Pitts its reputation as a "pilot's airplane." Use it for biplane-specific aerobatic figures: square loops, snap rolls, and the kind of close-quarters maneuvering that biplane handling rewards. A natural sibling of the Ultimate Bi-Plane (3D Planes pack) and Profile Ultimate (CV Planes Pack 5).