hesham said:we know the Motor Products built the W.B. Stout SX-6 as experimental fighter,or Stout
Experimental No.6,what was the earlier aircraft,from SX-1 to SX-5 ?.
Skyblazer said:The SX-6 is the earliest Stout aircraft known.
It is not impossible that "SX" may have meant "Stout Experimental" but it's only a hypothesis. Even so, it doesn't mean that Stout's previous five experimental designs were aircraft at all.
No. Stéphane is offering the possibility SX-1 through SX-5 might have been designs for other things than aircraft. A design number of 6 simply leaves room for 5 earlier designs, but these might be designs for cars, agricultural machinery or furniture.hesham said:Hi Skyblazer,
are you sure about that ?
Because, apparently, SX-6 wasn't the first design in that series.hesham said:... ,then why they didn't say SX-1 or No.1 ?.
Of the many products which were developed in 1918, the SX-6 merits a mention; it was also known as the Stout Experimental No.6, or more succinctly, the Stout Cootie. The most interesting feature of this single-seat monoplane, only one of which was ever built and about which little is known since hardly any data has survived, was its delta wing. The designer was William B. Stout and his 1917 design was powered by a 150hp Hispano-Suiza engine, built under licence in the U.S.A. by Wright. Stout had called his creation the Stout Streamline Monoplane and it was delivered to the Air Service under the designation SX-6 in December, 1918, for evaluation but no orders ever materialized.
Stout designed a high-wing monoplane from which all struts, wires, and other wind obstructions had been eliminated. It was completely revolutionary in design and appearance, looking so much like the trench pests of the war it was immediately dubbed "Stout's Cootie." Jimmy Johnson was assigned to fly the weird-looking plane, and made several fairly successful flights in it. But in the opinion of the officers at McCook the ship did not hold much promise as a military craft and nothing further was done with it.
hesham said:Oh my God,
many great thanks to you my dear Skyblazer,and here is also the same name (Batwing),but
any relationship between them ?.
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,24601.msg248140.html#msg248140
Silencer1 said:Dear Skyblazer!
Thanks a lot for the pictures of Stout Batwings, as well as a story behind it.
I'm also greatly appreciated link to the Detroit' archive - there were a lot of Stout-related images here: aircraft, trains, buses, cars!
B)
hesham said:Hi,
related to this bat-wing class,here is a Stout patent for the same concept,as a twin
engined medium transport airplane,page 367;
https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=nFnV9IG5040C&printsec=frontcover&hl=ar&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
and here is the Cootie (The SX-6 mid-wing monoplane):
can that name stand for "cutie"?