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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.

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.

What a marvelous example of purpose-designed engineering.

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.

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. 😊👍

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

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.

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! 😮❤

klaus plasa ist sowieso einer der besten

Как их не хватает,этих маленьких помощников!👍❤️

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.

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

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

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

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 !!!!!

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

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

Superbly filmed, the details on the stationary aircraft were amazing

Love the sound of that V8!

Great Storch Love it - underrated

Remarkable flying characteristics

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

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

Masterpiece of an aircraft

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

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

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

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.

I love the sound of the engine

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.

@ 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.

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

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

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

BEAUTY, A TRESURE !!!!

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

That's a thoroughly badass engine note

Beautiful bird! It still looks modern!

Hangar 10 hat wirklich schöne Flugzeuge

This and the Lysander is one of my favourites

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

Taken off. In no time. Nice machine

Sehr schöne Detailaufnahmen.

This aircraft is pure grace. Beautiful.

Damn good looking airplane!!

уникальные взлётно-посадочные возможности...

Excellent film footage and sound.

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

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

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! 🌷🌿🌍💜🕊

This is a real Beauty!

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

SUPERB aircraft!! 😊👍

I love those planes, too 😎

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

Excellent footage 👍😎

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

Wow, nice bird!!!

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

El mejor avión stol de la segunda guerra...☺👏👏👏

A great decision to just hop. Fly safe!

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

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

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

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

Great plane

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.......!!!!!😉🌾🌾🦅🐏

Awesome

Ooo yea. Baby. Nice one.

Nice !

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.

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

VERY GOOD, FROM BRASIL

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

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

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.

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

Great design....they can hover

Patient got airsick lol. Love the plane

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 !

Lovely, classic airplane. =PC=

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.

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

Шедевр!

'STOL' baby! Woo hoo!

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

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

Красивый самолёт.

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

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.

Just slats in wind leading edge, some large flaps in wing trailing edge. Blessings +

Classic plane

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

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!