Picture of the day.

tyrodtom · Jun 9, 2017

buffnut453 said:
Dunno...the vehicles look stationary so it might be a close call as to whether the Storch can keep up.

The Storch could fly very slow, with all of it's devices deployed, but it could also do 109 mph all out, about 20 mph faster than the J-3 Piper Cub of the same era.

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Informative pics :thumbright:

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buffnut453 · Jun 10, 2017

tyrodtom said:
The Storch could fly very slow, with all of it's devices deployed, but it could also do 109 mph all out, about 20 mph faster than the J-3 Piper Cub of the same era.

Yeah, I know. The Storch was a quite remarkable aeroplane. Every time I see an Army co-op aircraft I just can't help thinking of the (possibly apocryphal) story about a DeHavilland Beaver which apparently did a "vertical circuit" in Northern Ireland. It took off into a fierce headwind that was stronger than the climb-out speed, with the result that, as the Beaver climbed, it was blown backwards along the runway. The pilot, seeing that progress was futile, elected to push the nose down and simply landed back on the runway.