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.
Love it! "I Know" this is 100% TRUE! as you Just Can't make this Yhit UP! RIP GREATEST Generation! My Gramps was one who Bombed your Dad! from B 17's but he held no HATE, Just his DUTY! Other Gramps(mom's dad) was a SEA BEE Col in the Pacific! my Uncle, Dad's oldest bro was on the Missouri at the Surrender! he was NOT to FOND of alive Japs after Kamikaze's! for ever!
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
Hanna Reitsch landed it in front of the Brandenburg gate to take Von Greim to the Fuhrerbunker to receive the position as head of the Luftwaffe on some 26 april 45... I had the pleasure to help make a lot of these .. a local man made 200 of them as 2/3 size UL planes.. proved tk be the ultimate bush plane
@robinx961 More probably as a bush aircraft, flying to remote areas in Alaska, northern Canada and such places, where there is little infrastructure, and short take off and landing planes that can use just about any open field are the only way to get to some places.
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.
alexandre210613 No. It was my uncle and not this particular Storch. In fact that Storch that my Uncle flew met it’s demise at the end of a US Army bulldozer blade. His unit had captured (by his account) quit a few German aircraft. His Commanding Officer knew that they would be moving to a more forward base. So the story goes the Air Corps offered any pilot the opportunity to have any captured airplane that operation paper clip wasn’t interested in shipped home for the sum of 50 bucks. (In 1944 that was a huge sum). He didn’t have that kind of money as most of his paycheck was being sent to my grandmother. So shortly before they vacated that base a huge trench was bulldozed and all the captured German aircraft as well as the lame ducks out of the squadron inventory (including the beloved Storch) were pushed into the trench and buried.
@@gerrycarmichael1391 Hello Gerry, what a story ! No luck ($) for your uncle but as we say with us: a badly acquired good never benefits. Lol. An expression without borders i imagine. The main thing is that he returned safely. As for this buried treasure, he may still be there. Let me dream (lol) Thank you Gerry for this witnessing. I wish you and your family a very happy new year !
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.
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! 😮❤
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.
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. 😊👍
War seiner Zeit weit voraus der Storch,das Fahrwerk hat einen Federweg von knapp Einem Meter, die Landeklappen lassen Fluggeschwindigkeiten von 30 Knoten (etwas über Sechzig Stundenkilometer ) zu. Die RAF hatte so was ähnliches, nur nicht so gut und so Vielseitig.
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 !!!!!
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.
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
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! 🌷🌿🌍💜🕊
1/4? Was it built by Nestor Slepčev? A "Slepcev Storch"? I had the pleasure to work for that man right out of high school here in Serbia. Amazing man. He made 200+ of them but as ultra-light . Superior bush plane, he even reenacted Skorzeny's rescue of Mussolini in the Italian Alps to prove it's worth..
I am about to build the Flite Test RC Version. I down loaded the plans 4 years ago but haven't had a chance to do anything with them. Its made from Foam board from the dollar store and an electric motor and equipment to fly it.
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!
The ME109 had a inverted V12, , the Gypsy Moth had an inverted IL6 so not unusual. I presume it was to get the crankshaft lined up with the propeller which had to be high enough off the ground not to hit when the tail came up level. Non inverted like the Merlin had a gearbox that did the same task but with extra weight and complexity. Modern ICE aircraft engine seem to be all of the boxer design which also lifts up the crankshaft. Agree about the wheels, guess the designers envisaged them being used on runways or roads, not fields.
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.
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.......!!!!!😉🌾🌾🦅🐏
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
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.
@@twickersruss At a guess, the inverted engine means oil collected in the cylinders has to clear from the plugs before it fires, and then all that burns off...?
I'm not sure but I think the originals models were had an inertia hand crank starter on the side electric starters may have come later or been a post war retrofit but I could be wrong about that
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.
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?
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 is definitely an objectively cooler aircraft, but there's no doubt the Cub also has some pretty awesome history, like "Bazooka Charlie" who used his army-issue spotter plane to rain rockets on enemy lines in WW2. I think he only didn't get shot down because enemy troops didn't know wtf was going on, and event fighters couldn't fly slow enough to get a decent burst in (not that there were many about due to allied air superiority).
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.
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.
@@robertpitchford1786 Thank you for that! th-cam.com/video/PqhI4MeCn1c/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/oe5kp0Zr1VA/w-d-xo.html I am blown away at how soon these get off the deck!
@@PaddyPatrone I know they did some but the Argus is what made it on the german 156s. Of course the Argus is french. I recall that they used a radial on the french variant for some reason. They're hard to get still unfortunately. I like both the French and German kind. Love the videos, by the way!
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.
The Storch is currently my favourite airplane but I have a question about another warbird, has anyone restored and flown a Stuka JU 87? I’ve seen Spitfires, Messerschmitt BF 109s, Fokkers but never a Junkers.
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.
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When you say short hop you're not kidding! Great STOL.. thanks Paddy
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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.
Love it! "I Know" this is 100% TRUE! as you Just Can't make this Yhit UP! RIP GREATEST Generation!
My Gramps was one who Bombed your Dad! from B 17's but he held no HATE, Just his DUTY!
Other Gramps(mom's dad) was a SEA BEE Col in the Pacific!
my Uncle, Dad's oldest bro was on the Missouri at the Surrender! he was NOT to FOND of alive Japs after Kamikaze's! for ever!
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
ему крупно повезло большинство не были такими везучими
Lovely plane? Not in France between 1940-1945
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It's a plane mainly used for reconnaissance.
Зачем твой прадед пришёл в Сталинград?
I’m glad he made it! Thanks for the story, it always illuminates the context!
One of finest aircraft ever designed. Some aircraft represent major leaps in aviation. This is one of them.
One of the prettiest aircraft ever made . . ummmmm..... ??
I cannot agree more! This model was built for slow flight, and it does that to an extent which, even today, would be hard to equal.
Hanna Reitsch landed it in front of the Brandenburg gate to take Von Greim to the Fuhrerbunker to receive the position as head of the Luftwaffe on some 26 april 45... I had the pleasure to help make a lot of these .. a local man made 200 of them as 2/3 size UL planes.. proved tk be the ultimate bush plane
Certainly is a major leap to get in the cockpit!
I was there in June 2024! Fantastic collection! Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹 Europe!
Still better than anything built 80 years on. Beautiful, graceful and could still have purpose today.
Maybe as a training aircraft?
@robinx961 More probably as a bush aircraft, flying to remote areas in Alaska, northern Canada and such places, where there is little infrastructure, and short take off and landing planes that can use just about any open field are the only way to get to some places.
This plane was also unique of it's mechanical slats. One of a kind.
They really do float back to the ground graceful as a Stork, lovely aircraft.
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.
Gerry Carmichael ... a photo of your grandpa and this storch?
alexandre210613 No. It was my uncle and not this particular Storch. In fact that Storch that my Uncle flew met it’s demise at the end of a US Army bulldozer blade. His unit had captured (by his account) quit a few German aircraft. His Commanding Officer knew that they would be moving to a more forward base. So the story goes the Air Corps offered any pilot the opportunity to have any captured airplane that operation paper clip wasn’t interested in shipped home for the sum of 50 bucks. (In 1944 that was a huge sum). He didn’t have that kind of money as most of his paycheck was being sent to my grandmother. So shortly before they vacated that base a huge trench was bulldozed and all the captured German aircraft as well as the lame ducks out of the squadron inventory (including the beloved Storch) were pushed into the trench and buried.
@@gerrycarmichael1391 Hello Gerry, what a story ! No luck ($) for your uncle but as we say with us: a badly acquired good never benefits. Lol. An expression without borders i imagine. The main thing is that he returned safely. As for this buried treasure, he may still be there. Let me dream (lol) Thank you Gerry for this witnessing. I wish you and your family a very happy new year !
klaus plasa ist sowieso einer der besten
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.
Not safe, if the wind dies or changes direction, hello stall.
What a marvelous example of purpose-designed engineering.
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! 😮❤
Love the sound of that V8!
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.
Where was this?
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. 😊👍
War seiner Zeit weit voraus der Storch,das Fahrwerk hat einen Federweg von knapp Einem Meter, die Landeklappen lassen Fluggeschwindigkeiten von 30 Knoten (etwas über Sechzig Stundenkilometer ) zu. Die RAF hatte so was ähnliches, nur nicht so gut und so Vielseitig.
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In der CSSR gab es dann einen ähnlichen Vogel, nannte sich L 60 Brigadyr und wurde u.a. als Agrarflugzeug genutzt.
Brilliant design. Rommel loved to survey the battlefield in one.
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 !!!!!
One of famous passengers was Mussolini :)
Masterpiece of an aircraft
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.
Pity they can't be built today as a kit with a modern engine. That stol run is awesome.
I think you’ll find they are. Certainly there have been some made 3/4 scale I believe - not sure what donk they ran though.
Superbly filmed, the details on the stationary aircraft were amazing
Great Storch Love it - underrated
Remarkable flying characteristics
In a pinch..you could jump out safely! What a fantastic airframe. SurGut!
Wonderful Plane, perfect for the use it was put to. The Allies didn't have much that was quite as good.
I LOVE THE FIESELER STORCH. IT'S MY FAVORITE AIRCRAFT
Favorite ??
@@carolus651 yes
Why are you shouting?
Mine too!
Thank you for sharing this. One of my favorite planes.
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
Hangar 10 hat wirklich schöne Flugzeuge
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
Как их не хватает,этих маленьких помощников!👍❤️
Конструктор-гений.
Beautiful bird! It still looks modern!
no.
@@roscoefilms A Cessna or Piper plane doesnt look much different. This one just looks even more purpose-built
So beautiful, so basic, a master piece, great piece of art, I can't help admiring it.
no doubt that Germany built the best looking, if not the best performing aircraft, hands down. Nicely done piece of film.
I love the sound of the engine
I marvel at how the wing holds together with the centre section missing.
As well did you know that the wings are hinged and fold back in a unique way. It's a pretty amazing aircraft.
This aircraft is pure grace. Beautiful.
Damn he used a lot of starter on that fire up!! WoW!
BEAUTY, A TRESURE !!!!
BEST Fiesler video I have ever seen ♥♥♥♥♥♥
@ 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.
Sweet aircraft. Nothing like a private ambulance! Great video.
That's a thoroughly badass engine note
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! 🌷🌿🌍💜🕊
уникальные взлётно-посадочные возможности...
It's always crazy to see how easily it takes off.
Given a decent headwind they land in little more than a couple of aircraft lengths.
@PaцḶєє BlцєṢтяєєт yep true stol performance
I recovered a 1/4 model of this Airplane for my Friend few years ago. It was a amazing flyer.
1/4? Was it built by Nestor Slepčev? A "Slepcev Storch"?
I had the pleasure to work for that man right out of high school here in Serbia. Amazing man. He made 200+ of them but as ultra-light . Superior bush plane, he even reenacted Skorzeny's rescue of Mussolini in the Italian Alps to prove it's worth..
Спасибо за видео! Отличный фронтовой самолет! Легкий, надёжный, ремонтопригодный, и самое главное - красивый! )))
поражает механизация крыла в этом малыше- взлетел, как вертолет, чуть ли не с места вверх
Як 12?
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.
PURE GERMANY QUALITY ENGINNERING : 80 YEARS AGO !!!!!!
Master of slow motion flying...✌️
Sehr schöne Detailaufnahmen.
Lovely looking aircraft. Slightly hesitant start up, but full marks for parking.
Taken off. In no time. Nice machine
I've got the 1/72 Academy kit on my workbench. This greatly helps the paint scheme.
I am about to build the Flite Test RC Version. I down loaded the plans 4 years ago but haven't had a chance to do anything with them. Its made from Foam board from the dollar store and an electric motor and equipment to fly it.
@@scottfirman I always enjoy the Flight Test video on YT.
SUPERB aircraft!! 😊👍
This and the Lysander is one of my favourites
Stall speed: brisk walk.
I tried to stall mine, it wouldn't.
¡Muy Buen Año Nuevo! Buen video de una joya voladora, hermosa aeronave!!
Excellent film footage and sound.
A timeless design. The story of Hanna Reitsch is intertwined with the Storch.
I was thinking the same sir I would add that her story is heroic in the classical meaning
And the only aircraft to be shot down in aerial combat by a Piper Cub.
This is a real Beauty!
why is the argus as10 V8 engine inverted ?
It was the phylosophy of german engineers at the time. Almost all german V8&V12 aircraft engines of that time were inverted.
Excellent footage 👍😎
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!
The ME109 had a inverted V12, , the Gypsy Moth had an inverted IL6 so not unusual. I presume it was to get the crankshaft lined up with the propeller which had to be high enough off the ground not to hit when the tail came up level. Non inverted like the Merlin had a gearbox that did the same task but with extra weight and complexity. Modern ICE aircraft engine seem to be all of the boxer design which also lifts up the crankshaft. Agree about the wheels, guess the designers envisaged them being used on runways or roads, not fields.
Damn good looking airplane!!
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.
Ulrich Horn brilliant observation
Possible, but they also had trouble with the engine on that day.
Yeah, well observed.
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.......!!!!!😉🌾🌾🦅🐏
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
The patient was o.k. He didn't have time to get air sick
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.
It must have a very robust starter motor to be able to crank for that long without doing damage to itself.
Bosch. Qualität.
They all seem to start like that lots of cranking then a few puffs then lots of smoke.
@@twickersruss At a guess, the inverted engine means oil collected in the cylinders has to clear from the plugs before it fires, and then all that burns off...?
@@chrisburn7178 I would agree to that. 'Makes sense to me!
I'm not sure but I think the originals models were had an inertia hand crank starter on the side electric starters may have come later or been a post war retrofit but I could be wrong about that
During the war,captured examples were popular with allied commanders such as Field Marshal Montgomery.
First video in 2020 we missed you captain.....
Got some more footage in stock, will try to post more regularey
@@PaddyPatrone that is a great thing to know.
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.
Casualties were tougher back then
I have the same concern. I wonder if the side panels could be swung up or down and out of the way.
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?
I can't believe I took off in such a short space!
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 is definitely an objectively cooler aircraft, but there's no doubt the Cub also has some pretty awesome history, like "Bazooka Charlie" who used his army-issue spotter plane to rain rockets on enemy lines in WW2. I think he only didn't get shot down because enemy troops didn't know wtf was going on, and event fighters couldn't fly slow enough to get a decent burst in (not that there were many about due to allied air superiority).
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.
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.
Also maybe a powerful Turboprop turbine
Something very similar was built as a Wilga variant.
It was called Draco.
It was legendary for its STOL performance.
@@robertpitchford1786 Thank you for that!
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I am blown away at how soon these get off the deck!
Thanks for the video, I respect pilots and the flying of the airplanes and this is a very interesting looking plane, thanks
I love those planes, too 😎
The most disappointing thing about this aircraft is that nobody made them after WW2.
Actually, the French continued production in different variants after the war.
@@PaddyPatrone I know they did some but the Argus is what made it on the german 156s. Of course the Argus is french. I recall that they used a radial on the french variant for some reason. They're hard to get still unfortunately. I like both the French and German kind. Love the videos, by the way!
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.
Fly an Eflight timber then use the wing to build the storch!!!
The Storch is currently my favourite airplane but I have a question about another warbird, has anyone restored and flown a Stuka JU 87? I’ve seen Spitfires, Messerschmitt BF 109s, Fokkers but never a Junkers.
No but at least one is supposedly being restored to flying condition. Google it.
What a beast......I love it
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.
Probably easy to flood.
VERY GOOD, FROM BRASIL
Just slats in wind leading edge, some large flaps in wing trailing edge. Blessings +
*My Dad used to get mad at me for calling them a ... **_"Feesler Stork"_*
The first STOL airplane. Grandfather of all the Bush pilot planes of today. Extraordinary
Good thing the AAA shown up to give it a jump start
El mejor avión stol de la segunda guerra...☺👏👏👏
Wow, nice bird!!!
I live in Alaska. This would be an awesome plane up here.
If there was one light aircraft I could have as a run about - it'd be a Storch! 👍.
Yes me too.
I watched this plane do it's thing on the Discovery channel Wings of the Luftwaffa.
Is that the 2 seater Buchon that came from Connie Edwards collection in Texas that was in the background?
Isn't this what the legend Hanna Reitsch flew in and out of a crumbling Berlin at the end of the war?
Any time I hear a starter engaged for more than 10 seconds, I start hyperventilating.