📷 MonochromeMonday: Pitts Biplane Ride

in monochromemonday •  7 years ago 

Pretty much the coolest thing I ever won was a ride on a Pitts Biplane when I was 7 years old.   We were at the Marion, Indiana car show / fly in.  My grandpa had his car entered in the radical custom classification and my parents entered me into a raffle to take a ride in this acrobatic high performance biplane.   It could do all the stunts.   Rolls, loops, stalls....etc.  I can't get the day back but I wish I had the opportunity when I was older because I was only brave enough to do barrel rolls at that age.   I was too scared to do loops and to have him go straight up and do a stall and fall backwards back toward the ground until it turned and he could recover it.   That maneuver is called the Hammer Head.   It was extremely cool none the less and I was very lucky to win the raffle.   

Here is a picture of my grandpa's car that he had at the car show.   He built the car out of junk.  It is the only one like it in the world.    He was a non-traditional badass.   

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I am sure grandpa put in a lot of work and proud of his nice piece of art. It looks really lovely.

Yeah it was quite the project and he was featured in a lot of car magazines and drove it all over the United States to car shows.

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