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The Fieseler Storch History’s First Purpose-Designed STOL Aircraft

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The Fi-156 Fieseler Storch began in 1935 as Gerhard Fieseler's answer to a German air ministry specification for a general purpose airplane that could take off and land in an extremely short distance. Fieseler's chief designer, Reinhold Mewes, decided for ease of maintenance that the airplane should be completely conventional in its construction, and so utilized a steel tubing and fabric fuselage with wooden wings. The engine was the Argus As 10C inverted V-8 air-cooled...

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