V2plus10,
I had a deadstick with mine just today. I was doing an inverted pass and luckily I had some altitude. When the engine died I rolled it over real quick and got the nose down. I kept the nose down as I had to make a pretty sharp turn to get back to the runway. Keeping the nose down kept the airspeeed up enough to glide right in. After that I went and cleaned my drawers.
By the way you have one nice looking Pitts!
Here's mine