Here here!
Thank you for writing that monologue about Curtis. I am one of the lucky ones - to be able to own and fly a little Pitts Special is a priviledge. Those of us who love them are a tight knit bunch and we share our lust for life and inverted flight.
It sounds like you know your way around the Aresti Code.
FReepmail me if you are interested in sharing more information. Including - what the heck does "d.o.l." mean?!
Dasher
Oh, how I wish. I am but a struggling FBO owner (part owner, even). I have been around aviation in some capacity or other all my life, practically. Only my brother never took up flying, and that's because he wants to wait till he retires and start with helicopters (daft) by building one from a kit (doubly daft. And I love rotorcraft, but).
OTOH, said brother informed me today that I was not one to preach on mechanical reliability of motorized objects, seeing that I have three registered cars, all defunct today.
Now, you are clearly a competitor in acro, but also in racing? Biplane class seems like fun, but are there any events but Reno? At least IF1 there are a few places one can go. But (my opinion) a Cassutt is to a Pitts ... well, it's all the work and half the fun.
FReepmail me if you are interested in sharing more information. Including - what the heck does "d.o.l." mean?!
My nick and signoff here comes from my (now part-time) military service and is a bunch of interlocking code fragments that let people with a similar background figure it out. I have promised my fellow FReepers to "out" myself when I hang up my uniforms. I'm not famous or anything.
Some of the other flying and/or warring FReepers do know me in meatworld...
d.o.l. -- and blue skies (in your case blue earth, green sky?)
Criminal Number 18F
PS All FReepers who are in the "gun culture" ought to know that John Ross flies a Pitts Model 12.