"If you don't have a Fiesler Storch you need to get one" actually that's exactly what I did. Bought an rc model kit of this plane just because of these videos.

I worked at FoF as a teenager. This was always my favorite plane. My last day before I went to Nursing school Ken (i think, names are fuzzy) surprised me and said he was gonna take me up for the flight of the day. But when he started the storch up it started spewing oil. We had to shut it down. I thought my chance was over but we took the Stampe up instead. Most amazing day. 17 years ago and I can close my eyes and remember every bit of it. Best first Job ever!

“If you don’t have a Fieseler Storch you gotta get one, especially a German one....you gotta look for the gun”. Outstanding.

Used by Otto Skorzeny and Harald Mors to rescue Mussolini from a mountaintop retreat. This plane is incredible. Looks like it can still be an effective plane today.

Love that plane. My Dad always had a thing for the storch which was strange to me as a kid. He was in the RAF and worked on Spits and Hurricanes towards the end of WW2. Guess he just loved aircraft and the fact that it was German did not matter. He lives through the greatest years of aviation and I thank him for giving me the same interest in these great old birds.

I think that I flew that Stearman back in 2008/9. I had come to see the Storch and the engine and spares collection there. Afterwards I enquired about a joy ride and went over to the big hangar opposite. Had about 30-minute flight in that Stearman (Kaydet?). The pilot flew the takeoff down that runway between the trees and let me do all the flying. We did stall turns which needed massive amounts of rudder in one direction to overcome the torque of the big Continental. I flew back remembering the water tower and he landed. Certificate and mug, 'I flew the Stearman'. Brilliant!

Kermit flying Draco would have been quite something.

You sir have more planes in real life than i have in flight simulators. But thanks for sharing these fantastic planes with us!

One of these planes was used as the personal transport of the world's greatest test pilot, Eric Brown. He landed one on a Royal Navy aircraft carrier without a hook and used less than 1/3 of the deck doing so.

“I love this airplane”, says everything!

This is a man who knows how to make an aviation video:

Kermit has so much fun and watching him it's contagious!

The best STOL ever built, next come the Pilatus PC-6, Many thanks for the 3 parts and all the sharing knowledge. Congrats!

My vote for the coolest airplane of all time. I'm not a pilot but if I was, I'd love to own a Fieseler Storch. Such an interesting design and so much history behind it. Even if the Germans were our enemies, their aircraft engineering was fantastic. The Storch reflects that in every way. The view from the cockpit is the same one Rommel had when he flew around North Africa by himself, checking out the enemy and landing in the desert among his troops. And the view Mussolini had when Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando, rescued him from the mountain hotel in Italy where he was being held prisoner. And the view the famous German woman pilot Hanna Reitsch had when she landed in the streets and took off again during the Battle of Berlin during the last days of Hitler's Reich.

If you take nothing else away from this video, the engineering, the aerodynamics, the sheer thought that went into the creation of this aircraft, one thing everyone can understand is that it is indeed a marvelous observation airplane. Has any aircraft ever created so perfectly fulfilled its mission as well or as completely as the Fieseler Storch? I think not 😉

OK. Very very very good . Even more vidéos like this.

Kermit, did already someone mention, we all love you ;)

Those guys at the R/C strip got a nice surprise. That would have made my day to see.

Herr Kermit

Im so excited how cool this is I can't imagine those below driving on the interstate see a German plane above them is so funny and the thoughts they had seeing this fly overhead 😂 Kermit thanks s I much for preserving history and your verbal statements and knowledge is very cool, I dig it man! 😅😊