I came into this late, because I've been out of town. Seeing that kit is a blast from the past! When I briefly fooled around in RC in the early '80s, before I got back into RC two years ago, I had a friend who built a Mark's Models "funscale" Pitts. I've tried to find reference to it on the internet without success.

I would disagree that it is a particularly challenging kit to build. As I recall, the wings are solid balsa, with an undercamber to them, which becomes a flat-bottom airfoil when covering is applied. It was designed to be pretty simple to build. I don't recall that it was necessarily that great to fly. It is a small plane and may be a bit on the heavy side with the solid wing. I agree that it's not a second or even third plane for flying, but you could probably build it with a little help.

-Scott

Edit -- I looked a little closer at the label on the box and confirmed that it does have the solid balsa wings I described.