Fieseler Fi 156 Storch - Argus AS10C Inverted V8 | Hangar10 

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My father served as a medic in one of these. When flying out an injured soldier from a field exercise they had an unexpected burst of sidewind at the exact time the plane set the wheels on ground when landing on the airfield on return. The Fieseler promptly went topsy-turvy and ended upside down. Landing speed were, as my dad said, about a brisk walking pace. Dad suffered a bruised wrist, the pilot a broken leg and the patient crawled out of the plane with no more injuries than he had when taken onboard.

Lovely plane. One of those secured the existence of my family due to flying my badly injured great-grandfather out of Stalingrad, with him laying on one of the two stretches that were often mounted underneath both wings

One of finest aircraft ever designed. Some aircraft represent major leaps in aviation. This is one of them.

They really do float back to the ground graceful as a Stork, lovely aircraft.

This plane was also unique of it's mechanical slats. One of a kind.

When i saw one of these at the Shuttleworth Collection, we were fortunate to have a steady headwind of at least 30kt, which allowed it to have a takeoff run of about 8 feet, following which it was able to hover motionless at an altitude of 6 feet. Spectacular. On that day it could have taken off from the car park.

Still better than anything built 80 years on. Beautiful, graceful and could still have purpose today.

What a marvelous example of purpose-designed engineering.

My uncle was in the USAAC in WWII. His unit took over a Luftwaffe airfield somewhere in Belgium. They “captured” a Storch that had been abandoned and used it as a squadron hack. He had quite a bit of time in it. Said it was a blast to fly.

Den Fieseler Storch habe ich 1986 zum ersten Mal auf dem Hockenheimring gesehen während einer Austragung eines Formel 1 Rennens . Ich war sehr überrascht über die Fähigkeiten dieses Flugzeuges und man hatte manchmal den Eindruck, dass sie in der Luft stehen bleibt. Für den Start und Landung reichen nur ein paar Meter und mit etwas Gegenwind hebt sie ab wie eine Feder. Einfach ein tolles Flugzeug. 😊👍

Pity they can't be built today as a kit with a modern engine. That stol run is awesome.

I saw the South African Airforce Museum's Fieseler actually hanging dead still in the air for a few seconds before it touched down at Zwartkops air force base. At the Margate airshow it circled almost horizontally with one wingtip actually rotating the other direction! That is just incredible! 😮❤

When I was yong we used to have a Storch as a tug in our gliding club. I have had much opportunity to fly as a passenger on this machine. Tremendous !!!!!

Brilliant design. Rommel loved to survey the battlefield in one.

Right after high school, I took the bus to a nearby village where an old man was making them as UL bushplanes in his workshop. Very grateful to this day. He is old now, he drinks and haves fùn, only works on carousels cos he loves horses..Nestor Slepčev.. A "Slepcev Storch", look it up I Amazing man. He made 200+ of them, also had a UL bf-109 and a Ju87 Stuka. Superior bush plane, he even reenacted Skorzeny's rescue of Mussolini in the Italian Alps to prove it's worth.

In a pinch..you could jump out safely! What a fantastic airframe. SurGut!

Love the sound of that V8!

A highly rare D model! I think there's only three or so of these in existence, the only other ones I know of are D-EMAV and N40FS

Remarkable flying characteristics

Underrated and underestimated just how influential the design was on future light aircraft. Our annual local flying often has 2 or 3 show up, and the owner sells bushman planes. He is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to these lovely planes legacy.

Thank you for sharing this. One of my favorite planes.

Как их не хватает,этих маленьких помощников!👍❤️

Masterpiece of an aircraft

Great Storch Love it - underrated

I love the sound of the engine

I marvel at how the wing holds together with the centre section missing.

Beautiful bird! It still looks modern!

125 of these planes were used in the invasion of Luxembourg and Belgium on May 10 1940 to secure key road junctions or disrupt telephone lines before the advancing spearheads would arrive. Some of those crash landed having to get down on plowed fields instead of the very roads due to unforeseen obstacles and were subsequently burned by their pilots not to let them fall into enemies hands (the motor was cast from Electron alloy, which burns quite nicely after set ablaze by a thermite rod). About 500 soldiers were flown in that way. The majority of the planes used though were able to safely take off from their landing sites and return eastward to the Reich. The unsuspecting enemies actually were rather bemused and unwilling to accept wartime conditions. On one occasion Luxembourg policemen tried to arrest the heavily armed (tank rifle, Mg34, SMG) soldiers claiming their country's neutrality (which was about to be violated the very moment several miles further east by advancing infantry divisions). Source (german): www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-40617184.html

Superbly filmed, the details on the stationary aircraft were amazing

I LOVE THE FIESELER STORCH. IT'S MY FAVORITE AIRCRAFT

klaus plasa ist sowieso einer der besten

This aircraft is pure grace. Beautiful.

That's a thoroughly badass engine note

Damn he used a lot of starter on that fire up!! WoW!

I think if I could fly a plane. And could afford to own and run one. I think this would be the one I would want.

So beautiful, so basic, a master piece, great piece of art, I can't help admiring it.

Saw one of these at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ in Italian markings. One of these was instrumental in the rescue of Mussolini held in custody by the Italian government that turned against him.

Sweet aircraft. Nothing like a private ambulance! Great video.

BEST Fiesler video I have ever seen ♥♥♥♥♥♥

уникальные взлётно-посадочные возможности...

It's always crazy to see how easily it takes off.

One of the best videos about planes in so many years of youtube....if you !ove Luftwaffe and you study it....you'll love this Storch...even the Musik is beautiful.......!!!!!😉🌾🌾🦅🐏

I can't understand the German fetish for running an engine bottom-side-up. Sure, they have better visibility and easier servicing but I would worry about hydrostatic lock damaging an engine. Anyway, the Storch was one of the greatest built-for- purpose airplanes of the war. With spring loaded slats, flaps and lots of horsepower it could do a touch and go in a suburban driveway. With the Storch they didn't really need a helicopter.

@ 1:57 I was like "Oh shit, don't hit the HA-112 Buchon with the wing, ffs..!" :D Great video and it's really amazing that it had the original engine.

Hangar 10 hat wirklich schöne Flugzeuge

Mag acting up? Sounded a bit choppy after 2nd run up. Gotta love those STOL AC. I don't think the patient made it though, he looked rigor. Nice walk around - Thanks

Look Liked L19 US ARMY WW2 thanks for sharing buddy.( ARVN veterans) thankyou 🇺🇸🙌

That's a Very Short Take~Off~Airborne~Landing alright! Bravo Zulu! Fieseler Fi. 156 Stork >>> an Elegant Transport / Reconnaissance Aircraft indeed! 🙏 Thank You So Much for sharing! 🌷🌿🌍💜🕊

Спасибо за видео! Отличный фронтовой самолет! Легкий, надёжный, ремонтопригодный, и самое главное - красивый! )))

I recovered a 1/4 model of this Airplane for my Friend few years ago. It was a amazing flyer.

Given a decent headwind they land in little more than a couple of aircraft lengths.

I can't believe I took off in such a short space!

BEAUTY, A TRESURE !!!!

During the war,captured examples were popular with allied commanders such as Field Marshal Montgomery.

I've got the 1/72 Academy kit on my workbench. This greatly helps the paint scheme.

Taken off. In no time. Nice machine

0:30 "Spray some carburetor cleaner in it!" I yell from the crowd of spectators in my most obnoxious Danish*-American voice.. Fuck a piper cub, I want one of these, now there's some real history

This and the Lysander is one of my favourites

Sehr schöne Detailaufnahmen.

Haven’t scrolled through all of the comments to see if this was already mentioned, but this type of aircraft is briefly mentioned in the book “ A Higher Call”, which is about BF109 Pilot Franz Stigler & B17 Pilot Charlie Brown.

Damn good looking airplane!!

A timeless design. The story of Hanna Reitsch is intertwined with the Storch.

Stall speed: brisk walk.

Really a rather incredible STOL design,that takeoff was something else. Looking at the mocked up casualty,how the heck would you get someone genuinely immobile into that airplane ? Walking wounded sure,maybe one splinted broken leg with difficulty,but someone so badly off he needs the rapid ride to survive,that is a lot of highly engineered airplane,thus expensive thus fairly rare, needed for finding the opponents. And pressed into air ambulance because there is nothing else. And not engineered to rapidly mount/dismount said stretcher case. Unless I am missing something. Neat airplane. Very specific role of use. Would have loved some footage of what it took to install stretcher and dummy as located.

The first STOL airplane. Grandfather of all the Bush pilot planes of today. Extraordinary

I like this plane, slow, light, powerful, advanced stol devices, and also a lot of sight from the cockpit. Efficiency and a unique look. Some questions, why such a high gear with little wheels, the propeller does not seem so large, would it be better with bigger wheels on wild grounds? About the engine was it designed 'inverted' V8 for weight CG, front pilot view, or both? And what are the disadvantages of this setup? Thanks for this video, great images, a very complete private visit!

Excellent film footage and sound.

SUPERB aircraft!! 😊👍

First video in 2020 we missed you captain.....

This is a real Beauty!

Good thing the AAA shown up to give it a jump start

Any time I hear a starter engaged for more than 10 seconds, I start hyperventilating.

It always reminds me of a Praying Mantis. Perhaps it’s delicate gangly features.

Left landing gear was stuck in upper position after lift-off. This gave the plane a left rotation momentum from the right wheel. The Pilot reduced power at the same moment, when the left gear popped down out of slip stick. He must have thinking the plane is losing parts and reacted immediately.

I dunno, but to me that is a very cool aircraft!

Excellent footage 👍😎

Isn't this what the legend Hanna Reitsch flew in and out of a crumbling Berlin at the end of the war?

It must have a very robust starter motor to be able to crank for that long without doing damage to itself.

Thanks for the video, I respect pilots and the flying of the airplanes and this is a very interesting looking plane, thanks

I wonder what the STOL performance would be like if a Storch was made using carbon fibre and modern lightweight technology ? About the only way the design could be improved.

If there was one light aircraft I could have as a run about - it'd be a Storch! 👍.

VERY GOOD, FROM BRASIL

What a beast......I love it

I watched this plane do it's thing on the Discovery channel Wings of the Luftwaffa.

I love those planes, too 😎

I’m guessing fouled spark plugs as a result of over priming at the start which normally you wouldn’t crank that long either. The puffs of white smoke after it started was a bit of an indication of excessive fuel. But once again I’m only guessing I could be barking up the wrong tree.

I have the plans to build one of these as an RC model using foam board. With this video, I fully intend to add many details they eliminated in the plans simply because they didn't have such a detailed view of it. Even as an RC model it is known to be a very good plane for short take off and landing planes, better known as STOL planes.

I love this plane

Notice how Steve Henry uses smaller tires when competing on pavement. He found he could lock up his brakes, then rev up to a higher RPM, with take offs as short as two feet into the wind !

Шедевр!

Great plane

Wow, nice bird!!!

本当にあんな短い距離で離陸してしまうんですね？ 素晴らしい設計の傑作機ですね🎵

The exhaust on that Daimler Benz....damn!!

Физлер шторьх вещьь. Почему такие не делают. Дёшево сердито надёжно!!!

Patient got airsick lol. Love the plane

Amazing aircraft, excellent video. Something about the insignia wasn't quite right. The PC brigade rewriting history!

Just a quick question about the pilot's door in the Storch. I seem to remember seeing one version in which the door opened up vertically as if hinged at the top, yet most times the door appears to be hinged at the front in a more "normal" way. Am I going mad?

Lovely, classic airplane. =PC=