I like the Storch. It is one of those aeroplanes that I just seem to cross paths with, and so I’ve been lucky enough to ride in the back of three examples. What a great machine!
“Lt. Duane Francies and his observer, Lt. William Martin, took part in Franciesโ 142nd mission and one of the most unusual aerial actions of the war………….”
“On pp.310-312 of Cornelius Ryan’s 1959 “The Last Battle”
is an account of two 1st Lts (Scouts) of the US 5th Armored Divsion in a Piper Cub brought down the Fieseler Storch (photo page 190) German Pilot and observer captured.”
From http://www.supercub.org/forum/showthread.php?21671-Cub-V-Storch
The Historic Aircraft Collection used to do a re-enactment of the event at airshows back in the days when they operated the round-engined Storch.
Christophe Jacquard’s
Any chance do you think?
Of the geese?
…….dispose of some of the random machines that would be better placed with other museums.
Concorde, perhaps? ๐
Didn’t the example that the IWM shamefully divested themselves of end up with Bende?
Jerry Scutts passed away a couple of years back sadly.
You don’t say what you plan to do with it once you’ve bought it. $350k to acquire it is all very well, but what then? Do you have facilities and funding to complete it properly and operate it?
Grandads Axe? My dad replaced the blade and I replaced the handle.
Yes, but did you save the original blade and handle and keep them in the corner of the shed under a plastic sheet?
If you’re seriously planning on building one, whether static or flying, you really need to dig a bit deeper than Wikipedia as your primary reference source.
May I suggest de Havilland Support Ltd at Duxford as your first port of call. http://www.dhsupport.com/contact.php
You should also consider joining the de Havilland Moth Club. http://www.dhmothclub.co.uk/membership/apply.htm
You’re a week too early Trolly Aux
Breitling Fighters
Anything flown by Ray or Mark Hanna
P-63 (both of them)
Blenheim (both of them)
P-38
P-39
P-47 ‘No Guts No Glory’
‘Black 6’
Flycatcher
All the Sea Furies that got wrecked (about half a dozen ๐ )
Jean Batten’s Gull
Mosquito
La-9
B-25D ‘Grumpy’
Firefly
T-33
G-FIRE/G-HUNT/G-FURY
I miss ’em all, and especially the pilots lost to us.