||| |—|—| | | | In October, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum opened its “Aerobatic Champions” exhibit, which features the newly restored Pitts S-1C Little Stinker and the Loudenslager Laser 200.
Little Stinker (shown), hand built by designer Curtis Pitts, was small and lightweight, with a short wingspan allowing for extreme agility. The S-1 made Betty Skelton famous-in it, she became the first woman to perform the inverted ribbon cut maneuver.
