It is nice to see what they looked like… before we blew them out of the sky 🇺🇸 America baby put a boot in there ass…USA USA USA But seriously it is beautiful
In 2001 HBO and the BBC released a really superb docudrama about the 1942 Wannsee Conference starring Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci as Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann respectively. An early scene shows an Fi-156 C-3 making a landing with Heydrich supposedly at the controls (Heydrich did fly himself to the Wannsee Conference in a Storch). The aircraft shown does not appear to be the same as this one, the unit markings are different. Still, there can't be many airworthy Fi-156s remaining -- by my count eight worldwide.
That's such an incredibly short take off. I'd only ever read about it, but I'd never appreciated how little it took for them to get off the ground. Thanks for sharing.
it looked either really easy to fly, or very flimsy and easy to lose control of XD I'd imagine as a recon plane it'd be pretty sturdy and an easy-going flight for the sake of its purpose...
That particular airframe is ultra well designed and strong…especially considering the time, available materials, etc…Check out all of those triangulated struts. How beefy the landing gear mounts are… You are correct it has especially good visibility…look at the glazing again especially on the doors and how the glazing extends into the leading edge of the high wing. It was an early STOL aero plane and was only running something like 100 hp, if even. That type was made so that just about any smart/fast learning high school kid could master VFR in it…in a fortnight.
If all the markings are indeed from the time, it would be a disservice to the historical community to remove them. Luckily most real historians and right minded people understand the significance of preserving the past with all its flaws.
I was behind one of these on a taxiway in 1977 at CYOO when he got approval to takeoff from the taxiway…gone in 50’. (It was a different time for rules back then.) This resulted in a lfe-long fascination with STOL.
@Jack Stucki The guy you replied to did. Taking off from a three point stance vs tail wheel off the ground is all about angle of attack. Higher relative air speed means less ground speed needed which means a shorter takeoff.
From Kenya...I have just read a WW2 book.. on the road to Stalingrad....There is a photo of a Storch which has landed on a rough single lane road just in front of the panzer tanks.It was quite a versatile & maneuverable spotter plane !
That airstrip is located in Stow, Massachusetts on the beautiful Assabett River, just a couple of miles from where I lived for 35 years. It was a treat to see airplanes from the collection flying over my house.
Now that’s how you preserved history, complete with everything from the camouflage paint, right down to the swastika on tail rudder, and the MP40 submachingun.
It really is amazing just how large the Storch really is. Just seeing it in a photo, with nobody standing next to it, it's easy to mistake it for being the size of a Cessna 152.
This is So Comforting to Experience in a Happier Friday afternoon in a Beautiful Country field runway indeed! Fieseler Storch Transporter >>> Stylish & Classy! 🌷🌿
I love period planes. You have to build the compression to start the plane, and then it was only at most 60 feet before take off. What an awesome plane the Germans designed.
@@EmbeddedWithin Given the power to weight ratio the Storch is an amazing machine as it had even worse figures than the Lysander. Something like 12 pounds per horse power campared with ab out 7 for the Lysander. Even so the Lysander never mastered slow flight the way the Storch did.
Turning engine over to ensure there isn't fuel/oil in any of the cylinders inverted V engine could cause compression lock and damage conrods and valves, Very very expensive to replace!
This is from the mouth of babes and very astute. It’s important to preserve the story of both sides of such a complex conflict and keeping amazing machines and the context in which they were used is important. Speaking of context I’m a liberal with an interest in aviation and military history - well done in preserving and flying such a technically amazing aircraft.
@@davidparry1982 yeah definitely can't preserve and fly the plane without painting swastikas on it and wearing what most people identify as Nazi uniforms
The Storch has a stall speed of 20 knots. If in a landing or cruise configuration it was pointed into a 30 knot headwind it would indeed be flying in reverse as long as the airspeed was higher than stall speed but slower than the headwind.
I was lined up behind a Tiger Moth for takeoff on a windy day at Biggin Hill one day many years ago and watched him lift off and fly backwards until he built up enough speed to overcome the headwind speed. It’s a mind boggling but funny thing to see!
Enjoyed the video. The grass on the airstrip looks really well looked after, like they were taking off from a golf course. I think these aircraft were very well regarded as even Monty had one.
They used to sell rides in it. Seen it fly several times. It was amazing to see it overhead almost hovering. With a reasonable headwind, it could even fly backward, and l once saw it land with NO rollout. The town complained about noise however and they no longer fly anything from that field. Except for last year, they were holding mock battles with WW2 tanks, armored cars, full uniforms, artillery, explosions, pretty impressive and LOUD. Shermans, a Stuart, a Staghound, a Priest, a Stug, a Hetzer, a Panzer IV, an 88, a Mercedes 4x6 staff car ,etc.
The pilot was very professional taking his time and verifying the aircraft before takeoff. I was surprised how fast it was air born. Seemed like less than 100 feet and he was in the air.
@@bingola45 Did you notice that the pilot did not lift the tail wheel up to level before rotating into the air. I thought was standard practice for all tail draggers. What do I know?
The way the pilot pulls the prop through by reaching under and behind the blade is extremely dangerous. If the engine were to accidently fire, he'd lose an arm.
I'd have been more woried about the horse in front (which was briefly in shot). But it was *bound* to go just fine .............. as the pilot looked a lot like Cpt James T Kirk's twin brother.
Big boy in the back must have caused a bit of a aft CG, just crank in some nose down trim LOL! Amazing to see it fly, thanks for posting!! Love the sound of that V8!
One of our school teachers (yes, I'm that old) flew Hurricanes and P40s with the Desert Air Force in north Africa and told us they had "souvenired" a Storch in the final drive west. One day it was coming in to land and a stiff desert wind came up. The Storch met it head on on the final approach and hovered like a hawk in mid air. Eventually the wind dropped and so did the aircraft.
thefridgeman Short take-off. Looked a little tail heavy so perhaps that was why the fellow in the rear was there. I thought it might stall. Very interesting. But never handle a propeller as he did.
@@SlavicUnionGaming Hi - of course. But in the beginning he actually started like the others in the 20's trying to earn his livelihood in the aeronautical business amidst the ruins of the postwar Germany. The nazis came into picture much later when after the accession to power they started a massive, in the open rearmament program. Engineering skills like Fieseler's had where in high demand and the state provided almost limitless support for anybody with the right skills. It was a real golden age . Nobody in that time period suspected that beneath the surface was an another reality. People like Fieseler , Messerchmitt, Junkers ,Dornier , Lippisch, von Braun, Heisenberg honestly believed that all what had happened during the ' 20 s '30 s early '40 s was for the greater good to restore not to destroy Germany's place in the world....The sobering started when the early war successes faded away and the raine of the most radicalized figures like Himmler , Heydrich etc..was elevated as the state maine policy .
If I remember correct that plane could fly and stay airborne at a minimum speed of 36 km/h and the take-off speed was 40km/h. Thats as slow as it gets.
Excellent aéronef ! Mon père l'a utilisé en Indochine pour faire de l'observation et des evasan. Il me racontait que par fort vent (inverse) l'avion pouvait faire du surplace. Il pouvait atterrir et décoller sur des pistes très sommaires et sur de très courtes distances. Plus tard, au Maroc, mon père était le seul pilote voulant bien utiliser cet appareil pour faire visiter les vallées de l'Atlas.
They used one to get Mussolini away from his prison, and one was used to get a senior Nazi (forget which) out of Berlin. The best STOL aircraft of it’s time
For those complaining about the men in uniforms, this is a reenactment put on by the Collings Foundation. So they have uniforms on. Even if they didn't, they're still reenacting. Each Warbird pilot, and crew are reenactors. Our ages are anywhere from 20 to 70 years old. We didn't fly these aircraft during the war. A majority of us weren't even born yet. But, we reenact how some of these aircraft were flown. When you see a warbird performing a "Bomb run" at an airshow, we're reenacting. The Collings Foundation adds to it by wearing uniforms.
@Baz Bazdad Thank you! I'm glad that you understand my name on here. Others have been confused. This reenactment takes place in the New England area of the US. I'm not positive, but like most Storch's you see flying today, the Collings Foundation's Storch might be a post war French example. Many were saved in South America.
@Baz Bazdad I attend the 352nd FG reunion every year. It hit us hard when Punchy passed away. He held everyone together. It hit me pretty hard when Alden Rugby(487th), and Don Bryan(328th) passed away. I have only seen the tower once. I have been told the same, about the owner, from my British friends. It's sad it can't be saved. We were hoping to make it another Museum, with a memorial dedicated to Frascotti, and the rest of the men of the 352nd.
@Baz Bazdad It's sad, it's falling apart. There are quite a few towers I would like to see saved. Kingscliffe is another tower, and field I would like to see saved. Deenethorpe Field seems to be incredibly intact.
Bluenose352: Why don't you "enact" the flight of such a warbird without showing all those stupid German uniforms ? Uniforms who horrified peoples of all Europe !
They make good cars, good beer and good guns but their politics in the first half of the 20th century are somewhat questionable. The only good Hitler actually did was in rebuilding the German economy following the first world war only to have it destroyed again in the second world war.
"Little"? I was honestly suprised at the scale when the guy stood next to the prop. It's relatively small, but for a plane of its size, I'm even more impressed by the takeoff roll.
Говорят, за счет развитой механизации крыла, эта штука могла взлетать и садиться против ветра практически вертикально и на любую поверхность! They say that due to the advanced mechanization of the wing, this thing could take off and land against the wind almost vertically and on any surface!
It was also the plane, that got Hitler out of Berlin. Lived out his years in S.America. His burned "body" was that of his "official" double. The allies knew this, which is WHY he was left alone in exile.
ADDED: The Jews came sniffing around, at one point, but between Hitlers Security Force, and a few HARSH calls from CIA and MI6---Mossad left him be. The gist was; "Leave him alone...or else !" This was about 1952, and Israel NEEDED American arms desperately. Hitler finally died in 1955-6 sometime.
I believe James Cottrell is right. Mussolini was prisoner of Italian Carabinieri at Campo Imperatore .This place is up in the mountains of Central Italy. German paratroops and German gliders carrying others troops attacked this place but Mussolini was rescued by a Storch airplane with an extremly risky take off,then they landed at Pratica di Mare near Rome.Hitler ordened to bring Mussolini to Berlin by a bigger airplane.
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@Baz Bazdad :-] Indeed weird. I had the an Airfix Fw189 as a kid. I didn't have too much of an opinion about it then (because it wasn't a fighter or bomber). But in recent times I must say that this plane has grown on me.
@@manofsan do you see how large the wings are coupled with how small and light the fuselage is? Also The massive flaps it has also contribute to a ton of lift. You saw how quickly it was able to get off the ground, it would also be able to land in a very short distance too. That plane is designed to be able to takeoff and land just about anywhere making it excellent for what alaskan bush pilots might do.
@@ethanshortell3902 There is a similar type of aircraft called the Wilga. Here's a video of someone who crashed while taking off in cross-winds: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GwyLoGkoHus.html These types of large wingspans seem particularly vulnerable to cross-winds. That pilot, Mike Patey is building a new aircraft, and he's trying to come up with a newer wing of his own design: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AZ9mg9g0D7c.html
I would imagine the proper preflight had already taken place this one was for the camera as the real one would have taken too much time, they took long enough to get airborne anyway a lot could have been edited out and still left it interesting.
Great to watch, and surprising how quickly it was air born. At the end I could hear the gent on the speaker talking about the rescue of Musollini, and I do recall those photographs. I'm also wondering if this was the plane from the Great Escape that was shot down. Anyone know?
andrew ey For ages I also thought it was a Bf108 but when I got the Heller model of the 108 I compared the model with the plane on the DVD of "The great Escape". It obviously was not the same aircraft but a little bit of research located the real identity. I also have a model of the Storch, in 1/32nd scale. It is massive. All my Luftwaffe aircraft have swastikas and a workman doing something on the house took some exception to it. I asked him what sign should I put on the fin for an authentic model?
I know what you mean. I have a few German models from WW2 and they all came without the swastikas. There is a site in Canada which does offer them for sale. But, really it is only a good luck symbol from the East. It is really a shame that the Nazis took it for their own
