Fieseler Fi 156

The Fieseler Fi 156 is a military aircraft of recognition German of the Second world war, manufactured by the Firm Fieseler and designed in 1935.

It is the equivalent of the American Piper, it excelled in its missions of observation, transport of personalities or material, flying Ambulance.

It is called Storch ( stork in German) because of sound Gear landing high on legs.

Of 1935 with 1945, the Luftwaffe used approximately 2900 Fieseler Fi 156.

Features

It is a plane with takeoff and short landing (STOL), which made it possible to make it take off and to pose it almost anywhere. Indeed, it needed less than 70 m to take off and less than 25 m to land, that thanks to ailerons of leading edge and shutters with slits.

These particular capacities were, in addition to its takeoff and short landing, a low stalling speed (50 km/h) and its maneuverability.

Its broad glazed surface enabled him to serve as excellent observer.

A machine-gun MG 15 of 7,9 mm was sometimes installed with the back.

  • Scale: 14,25 m

  • Length: 9,9 m
  • Height: 3,05 m
  • Motorization: 1 engine Argus Ace 10C-3 of 240 ch
  • Laden weight: 1320 kg
  • maximum Speed: 175 km/h
  • Distance parcourable: 390 km
  • Altitude: 4600 m
  • Crew: 2

Anecdotes

It is with this type of apparatus that Otto Skorzeny made escape the Italian ex-dictator Mussolini from a tiny plate located at an high-altitude in the mountains of the the Apennines in 1943.

See too

  • List of the military aircrafts

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