Fieseler Fi-156 Storch Whiffs

[Daryl J.]

Mass Blarney Innoculations??            

And as far as the floater and the spatter go:      

Keep'm coming please.



Daryl J., eating this up

[Chap]

It's amazing how a whiff can turn out to be true. Here's a heavily retouched photo of a spatted Storch I found on this website.



~Steve

[B777LR]

A Storch fitted with an MK-108 cannon in the side, acting as a mini-gunship?

[Chap]

That's an interesting idea triple-7! Leads me to think of a French one in Indo-China or North Africa. Only problem I could see would be it's vulnerability to small arms fire. I'll try to put a profile together soon.

~Steve

[Mossie]

Not a whiff, but I found some old pics on Airliners.net of a Storch being serviced in the field by a guy standing on a motorbike (The replies underneath say it's a Triumph 3SW, so a captured bike to boot), would make a nice dio:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Germany-Air-Force/Fieseler-Fi-156-Storch/1070483/L
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Germany-Air-Force/Fieseler-Fi-156-Storch/1070482/L

EDIT, links fixed.

[The Wooksta!]

How about Post-War Irish Air Corps, in overall emerald green with dayglo orange cowl.... used for spotting/tranquing Leprachauns from the air during the mass Blarney Innoculations of the late 1940's.....

.....I'll get me coat (again)

Ian

Given the number captured and used post war by the RAF for light communications duties (along with the Ar 96 and the Si 204, as we'd had to burn the US supplied aircraft as we couldn't afford to keep them), flogging them to the Irish once we'd finished with them isn't such a daft idea.

[Rheged]

How about Post-War Irish Air Corps, in overall emerald green with dayglo orange cowl.... used for spotting/tranquing Leprachauns from the air during the mass Blarney Innoculations of the late 1940's.....

Didn't the Irish use a crop duster attachment to spread Leprachaun Immobilisation Powder  in the heaviest infected areas of Donegal  in the 1950's?  I believe that the R A F at Ballykelly were worried that they might cross the border and cross-breed with the  gremlins that nested in the  Griffon engines of the Shackletons stationed there.

[tigercat]

Scenario Gremlichaun was a major concern of the Laundry in the 1940's and 1950's

[ysi_maniac]

Related plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_L-60_Brigad%C3%BDr

[ysi_maniac]

Thank you for the correction and the information Jon, I was unaware of the Fi-97, a lovely plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieseler_Fi_97

[tigercat]

Engine layout from Dornier Skyservant and a solid nose.

[63cpe]

Ok i have to admit i'm kinda aroused by the Storch autogyro......can I "borrow the idea"?

David

[The Rat]

A radial engined example was flying in Canada up until at least the 70s, I saw it a few times, once when it impressively took off across(!) Runway 33 at Pearson.

[63cpe]

It must have been an Morane Saulnier ms 505 criquet. A french-built, radial-engined copy of the Storch.

[Captain Canada]

I like the low wing example. Be neat to see that in a model. I've always wanted to do one on e boat. Some day !