1/4 SCALE RC FIESELER Fi 156 STORCH "STORK" STOL - ZENOAH ZG 38cc - LMA SLEAP - 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2023
- PILOT - NIGEL BRYETT,
OWNER / BUILDER - LOUIS REX,
ITS A BRAVE MAN THAT FLIES A LIGHT WEIGHT "STOL" MODEL IN A GUSTING 25+ MPH WIND BUT THIS GUY HAS BALLS OF F"^*^*"G STEEL !!!!!!!!
Originaly started out as a Paola Severin kit, that I built.
Engine is a Zenoah ZG38 driving a Toni Clarke 2.8:1 reduction unit,
driving a 31.5inch x 18inch propeller.
Scale 1-4.
Wingspan 3.54 m.
Length2.4m.
Wing area 2713 sq ins.
Wing loading 25.5 oz/sq ft.
Weight 11.5 kg.
Fitted with PowerBox Competition,
Lipo 2x 4000 4x spectrum satellite receiver’s.
Servos are MG5921HV 20.3 kg.cm/0.12s.
So powerful are these we have to ensure the Tailwheel is off the ground before switching on the RX.
Like the full size the tail plane incedence can be adjusted to alter c of g reletavely to loading,
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Role - Reconnaissance & communications
National origin - Nazi Germany
Manufacturer - Fieseler Morane-Saulnier
First flight - 24 May 1936
Introduction - 1937
Retired Germany - 1945
France -1 970
Primary users - Luftwaffe
French Army
French Air Force
Produced - 1937-1949
(-1965 as the MS 500)
Number built - Over 2,900
The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch ("stork") was a German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II. Production continued in other countries into the 1950s for the private market. It was notable for its excellent short field (STOL) performance and low stalling speed of 50 km/h (31 mph).
French-built later variants often appear at air shows. Compared to most other liaison aircraft of the period, the Storch was quite large and heavy, with its wingspan exceeding 14 meters (nearly 47 feet) and its weight slightly over 1,300 kg (2,900 pounds) when fully loaded. It was significantly heavier, slower, and less agile than Allied liaison aircraft such as the American Piper L-4 or Stinson L-5, or the British Auster.
During World War II
The Storch involved in Mussolini's rescue in the Gran Sasso raid.
The Storch was deployed in all European and North African theaters of World War II. In addition to its liaison function, a number were used to fly a battalion of Infantry Regiment Grossdeutschland behind enemy lines during the invasion of Belgium.
Field Marshal Rommel used Storch aircraft for transport and battlefield surveillance during the North African desert campaign of World War II.
In 1943, the Storch played a role in Operation Eiche, the rescue of deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from a boulder-strewn mountain-top near the Gran Sasso. Even though the mountain was surrounded by Italian troops, German commando Otto Skorzeny and 90 paratroopers used gliders to land on the peak and quickly captured it.
However, the problem of how to get back off remained. A Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter was sent, but it broke down en route. Instead, pilot Heinrich Gerlach flew in a Storch. It landed in 30 m (100 ft), and after Mussolini and Skorzeny boarded, it took off in 80 m (250 ft), even though the aircraft was overloaded. The Storch involved in rescuing Mussolini bore the radio code letters, or Stammkennzeichen, of "SJ + LL" in the motion picture coverage of the daring rescue.
On 26 April 1945, a Storch was one of the last aircraft to land on the improvised airstrip in the Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate during the Battle of Berlin and the death throes of Nazi Germany. It was flown by the test pilot Hanna Reitsch, who flew Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter von Greim from Munich to Berlin to answer a summons from Hitler.
Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst and his Storch, Italy, 1943
A Storch was the last aircraft shot down by the Allies on the Western Front and another was downed by a direct Allied counterpart of the Storch, an L-4 Grasshopper, the military version of the well-known American Piper J-3 Cub civilian training and sport aircraft. The pilot and co-pilot of the L-4, lieutenants Duane Francis and Bill Martin, opened fire on the Storch with their .45 caliber pistols, forcing the German air crew to land and surrender,
The British captured 145, of which 64 were given to the French as war compensation from Germany.
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FILMED AT AN LMA ORGANISED RC MODEL AIRCRAFT SHOW AT SLEAP AIRFIELD,
HARMER HILL, SHREWSBURY, SY4 3HE ON 29-7-2023, - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
That really is a nice looking plane, and i'm sure it is much easier to fly when 'gale force' winds are not blowing! 😊
Yes indeed
Well done indeed in those conditions
Good grief! I think I saw some corn blowing off the stalks! What a nice Storch though!
Flip me. That was brave!
I’m designing my own Storche now. How cool for this subject to come along. Great video Quality. I wouldn’t fly on a day like this putting the model at risk.
Hats off for the pilot !!!!!
wonderful!
Thank you! Cheers!
A great and big modell airplane, bravo !
It flies really scale !
Blimey! It was certainly blowing a storm. For a moment, I thought I saw it flying backwards. 😂 i’ve got to take my hat off to the pilot, for flying it in those conditions. 😊
you guys are brave in that wind good pilots
Well done. I wouldn't try that with my big J3
I fly light, high wing airplanes and this is a master class in keeping the damn thing under control (for the most part). Everyone has a wing lifted on them - taxiing is it's own adventure! I'll watch this video a number of times to see what I can glean from it. Great stuff.
thanks
Well done
It's too windy for this light stork !
Nice scale detail on this iconic historical aircraft. 🙂👍🛩
Many thanks!
Have literally just finished by Blackhorse Storch, too wet and cold here in Southern Australia to fly at the moment.
A bit windy that day? Plane looked great and flew very nice. Excellent video as always.
thanks jack
Pete...this is almost painful to watch. Did the "Supreme Leader" say you vill fly dis thing or else? Very courageous. I almost had to look away. Jim
lol - it seemed to handle the wind very well jim,
Just like the original one. It didn't like to much wind either. If he'd put the flaps down it'd be flying in reverse.
G'day,
Have ye not seen
Nestor Slepcev's
Storch ?
He used Extruded Aluminium Street-Signs,
For Wing-Spars...
And 2 people can sit in it
And go
Levitating,
With a Rotax
Motor...!
Before that, he built a 7/8 Scale Me/Bf-109, using a Piper Navaho's all-moving
Stabilator
Inverted
As a
Wing....
It looked
GREAT,
Flying...
But when asked about it, he stated that when
Turning from Base onto
Final Approach, his
Anxiety levels caused his
Feet to twitch involuntarily on the
Rudder Pedals....;
And about
One Landing out of every Five,
He
Pissed himself,
While flaring,
Coming over the Fence....
When asked,
"Really, if it's
THAT
Scary...;
Then why
Do you fly
Such a dangerous
Hairygoplane....?"
And,
Nestor Slepcev's
Answer was....,
"Well,
Y'see...;
It's
REALLY Fcukin'
FAST....!"
And after hearing that, I kinda lost interest in scaled-down Ultralight "WW-2 Fighters"...
But the Storch is pretty much a Heavy-Duty Piper-J-3 Cub ; but with a V-8 Argus instead of a 4-cylinder Continental ("Dependable As The Nation !", it said on the Hub-Plate of VH-FZY, the Cub in which I had my first Lesson, in 1978...!),
And Flaps,
And Slats/Slots,
And Droop-able Ailerons...
So, think Piper-Cub/Westland Lysander - Equivalent.
I have the impression that Slepcev Storch Kits finished up being built in AmeriKa...
But Nestor's probably dead from
Oldness of the
Age...,
By nowadayze...(?).
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
thanks warbs
We really need to buy you a decent wind sock for your microphone.
Why does it look like the prop isn't spinning much?
Stroboscopic effect, just like carriage's wheels turning backward in movies.
no - its because its on a reduction drive for more torque !
its because its on a reduction drive for more torque !