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- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing a left side profile view of a Stout Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Stout, William Bushnell
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing a rear and right side view of a Packard Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building. The tail of the Batwing is elevated and resting on a wooden stand. Numerous windows, some of which are open, are visible in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Stout, William Bushnell
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing a front end view of the skeleton of a Stout Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building. Two men can be seen standing behind the Batwing's right wing. Hand written numbers in pencil on the bottom border read "9/12/18."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Newspaper article, mounted on board, "Batwing 11, Giant Monoplane of the Future: Mysterious New Self-Contained Aircraft With a Single Wing, Expected to Make 200 miles an Hour, to Revolutionize Aviation, and Set the Whole World A-Wing." The article includes a drawing of the "Pictured idea of the new Batwing monoplane - consisting of a single internally braced wing seven feet thick and with a lateral spread of forty feet, in which engines, crew, passengers and all cargo will be placed. It is the invention of William B. Stout, aeronautical engineer, aided by Orville Wright, 'Father of Aviation.'" Text written in black marker on the backing above the article reads "Detroit, Michigan Free Press Sunday, June 13 1920."
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing an angled front end view of a Stout Cootie airplane inside a Motor Products Corporation building. The photograph was taken from the airplane's front right, and a pilot is shown in the cockpit.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing an angled front end view of a Stout Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building. The bottom portion of the Batwing is an unfinished skeleton. The tip of the right wing is just outside of the frame. A man is standing in the background behind the Batwing's left wing. Hand written numbers in pencil on the bottom border read "9/17/18."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing an interior view of a Motor Products Corporation building with two men standing in the foreground and the wing of a Stout Batwing skeleton in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Book, Acquiring Wings: A Text on the Basic Principles Governing the Design and Operation of Modern Air Craft, by William B. Stout. Published by Moffat, Yard & Company in 1917. Text on the front of the dust jacket reads "This is an extremely practical book on the basic principles of aviation, giving in much more concise form than heretofore those fundamentals regarding airplane construction and design which the ground student should know preliminary to his actual training on the machine. The author is a recognized expert on airplanes and is now in government service. The illustrations are clear and comprehensive. Altogether this little volume should prove a helpful guide for that great body of American men who are taking up the study of aviation." The front cover is signed "Stan E. Knauss" on the upper left. Text at bottom reads "Illustrated, 75 cents net." The back of the dust jacket includes a listing of five "Live Books for Fighting Men," published by Moffat, Yard and Company, including Acquiring Wings by William B. Stout, The Conquest of the Air by A. Lawrence Rotch, Model Aeroplanes and their Engines by George A. Cavanagh, 'My Log' and 'My Diary': Diaries for Our Fighting Men," and The ABC of Cooking - For Soldiers and Sailors.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing an angled front end view of a Stout Cootie airplane inside a Motor Products Corporation building. The photograph was taken from the airplane's front left, and a pilot is shown in the cockpit.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing a rear left side view of a Stout Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building. An automobile is also shown in the background to the left.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
