RE: Pitts/Fuji 50
I have been flying one of the Pitts for almost a year now. At first I had a US41 on it, nice combo for scale flying. The plane was lite and we could do tail wheel first landings at very low speeds. The engine was giving me trouble and I had a Quadra 52 laying around so I put that one in. The plane still lands tail wheel first and has no I repeat NO bad stall habits. The new combo has fantastic vertical performance. I do only scale flying and no 3D. The plane does not have the power to hover and then pull out, but that is not my style.
All-in-all the Pitts is one of the best performing planes I have ever flown. Roll it up on a knife edge on take off and climb out and watch the crowd go wild. No other plane looks as good as a Pitts on a knife edge.
Just my opinion.
Mark