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Pictures of Building the Pitts Airplane Wing designed by Curtis Pitts.

Pitts Aerobatic Biplane from Chuck Roberts

Building the Pitts Wing Uncovered.
Home page for the Pitts experimental airplanes. Originally designed by Curtis Pitts, Experimental aircraft like the Pitts are made by homebuilders like you. Here you can see pictures in detail on how homebuilt airplanes are made.

Pitts Airplanes * Building the Pitts Wings

The Pitts aerobatic biplane comes in different versions including the S-1C, S-2B, S-1S and now the Super Stinker. The original Pitts was designed by Curtis Pitts who considered his first airplane design, with a sixty five horsepower engine, to be severely over powered. The Pitts is now one of the most successful aerobatic aircraft in the world with engines up to and exceeding 450 hp. This series of pictures shows how the aircrafts wings are constructed with close up pictures of the spars, ribs, compression ribs and various other rigging of the Pitts wing. Click here to see many more pictures at the YellowAirplane Museum.

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Click on the first image to start tour, then follow the arrows.
There are more pictures in the tour than you see here.

Start Tour Here The wing spars are placed on the leveling supports	The wing spar is leveled and clamped to the supports	The first ribs are pushed onto the spar
A compression rib is pushed onto the spars	A drilling block is placed on both sides of the spar then clamped into place	Once the drilling block is in place, holes are carefully drilled into place
Drag and Anti-Drag wires in place	Drilling a hole for the flying wire attach tube	The Doubler Plate is placed on the spar
The wing gets closer to completion	Cutting the bent leading edge plywood	Final inspection before the leading edge is placed on wing
Another Pitts wing with a different configuration	Special tools are used to pull the leading edge cover tightly into place	A closer view of the special tools and the leverage block
The leading edge is pulled completely down using a helping hand	What's this, a complex curve? My plywood won't cover this too well	A nearly completed wing
A wing tip faring	Another type of wing tip faring	Click Here's a good way to store your wings

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