Formation Discipline, Written in a Biplane

AVweb's picture of the day puts a formation of Pitts Specials in the frame, wingtip spacing held tight through the turn. The Pitts remains a benchmark for hand-flying feel among owners who fly for the discipline of it rather than the destination, and formation work in a single-seat aerobatic biplane leaves no room for a lapse in throttle or bank angle. It's the kind of image that reads differently to someone who has logged time in one: not a stunt, but a rehearsed, unforgiving exercise in matching another airplane's exact path through the sky.

With reporting from AVweb.