Fi-156 ARR, need help

I have plan to make a Fi-156, I want to do it in Romanian colors. I want to ask if Nr.0, one reserved for Marshal, was painted in German camouflage?

Does anyone have an idea what is drawing the fuselage. I could hope for a higher resolution picture?

Florin

Where is this information coming from? Is there a photo of No. 0?

Gen. Dénes

There is a photograph of personal aircraft of Marshal Antonescu in Fieseler Fi 156 Storch 1938 - 1945, Dariusz Karnas, Mushroom Model Publications, ISBN 978-83-61421-47-4. It is in standard Luftwaffe camouflage with German markings painted over in light green. Red 17 on the fin. D.Bernad collection.

The photograph above is captioned as Fi 156 C built in ICAR factory. Stratus Collection.

Where is this information coming from? Is there a photo of No. 0?

Gen. Dénes

Modelism magazine:

In the scan of "Modelism" magazine provided by "scorpio", there is a reminder that this type of plane helped to recover Mussolini from his arrest.
Little is known that for escape the Germans intended to use a real helicopter, but the helicopter got defective in the last moment, and "Plan B" was the Fieseler Fi-156 Storch.

This post has been edited by Florin on September 01, 2012 12:33 am

scorpio,I do not have idea for drawing fuselage. But I have some pictures and I will upload them.



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This post has been edited by warunasanjaya2727 on August 31, 2012 04:59 pm

scorpio,I do not have idea for drawing fuselage. But I have some pictures and I will upload them.

I'm referring strictly to the drawing on the left side of the plane. Drawing that looks like a eagle.

I think it is a winged bottle, in my opinion it resembles the emblem from the photo below, only the design is different. Photo source: Romanian Aeronautics in the Second World War 1941-1945 - Cristian Crăciunoiu, Jean-Louis Roba, Modelism, 2003, page 196.

The engine of Fi-156 was a two-stroke engine - you know, that kind where the lubricant is mixed with gasoline and burnt together.

This post has been edited by Florin on September 01, 2012 12:36 am

Trabant

Trabant

I grew up in the "Trabant" era.
When I was young and student, one of my dreams was to build a very little airplane to cross Bulgaria from north to south (only 300 km / 200 miles) and land in Greece, a NATO member. I made countless drawings around this dream.
The Trabant engine was great for this job - air cooled, light weight, 28 HP.
It was available in store with 11000 lei - huge amount for those times.
The biggest problem in all this airplane matter was testing it somewhere - and there were good chances that someone could see me and report to Big Brother.
***
You don't have the "delation" problem today, but this is a hard task even in a free country.

P.S: A university colleague and friend told me that in Banat, the place of his grandparents, people found in a corn field an abandoned little airplane built around a Dacia 1300 engine ( water cooled, 52 HP , but at least twice heavier than a Trabant engine). With target less ambitious than mine (they only needed few kilometers to reach Yugoslavia), something went wrong and they did not make it.

This post has been edited by Florin on September 01, 2012 03:51 am

The Argus As10 was most definitely NOT a two-stroke engine.
One is on display in the Military Museum.
Radu

The Argus As10 was most definitely NOT a two-stroke engine.
One is on display in the Military Museum.
Radu

My source is a French book about French paratroopers in WWII, translated into Romanian: "Indraznetii Inving" / "The Daring Will Win"
OK, I got it - wrong source !!!
A list with aircraft two-stroke engines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Two-..._piston_engines

P.S: Which Military Museum ?

This post has been edited by Florin on September 01, 2012 05:48 am

Muzeul Militar "Carol I" Bucuresti.
It is an excellent museum.
Radu

Muzeul Militar "Carol I" Bucuresti.
It is an excellent museum.
Radu

"King Ferdinand I", the founder of the muzeum, not "Carol I"