Fieseler Storch Fi 156 and Fieseler Fi 167

Fieseler Storch Fi 156 and Fieseler Fi 167

Photo 1 is a Fi 156 seen from above flying over hills.
Photo 2 is a Fi 156, starboard side, flying above clouds.
Photo 3 is a Fi 167, port side, flying above clouds.

Three b/w photographs on an album page

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Fielseler Fi 156 Storch.
Designed in 1935 & first flown in the spring of 1936, the Storch (Stork) was a braced high wing monoplane of mixed construction. Full span wing slats & trailing edge slotted flaps enabled the Storch to take off in 213 feet & land in 61 feet giving it a ‘STOL’ capacity. Used extensively as a liaison & communications aircraft production totalled about 2900. On [sic] variant was produced as an anti-partisan model & had two underwing racks for 48 anti-personnel bombs.

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Fieseler Fi 167.
As Germany was building the aircraft carrier ‘Graf Zeppelin’ a two seater torpedo bomber & reconnaisance [sic] aircraft was needed. Trials late in 1938 revealed that the Fi 167 was successful in this role. The aircraft had ‘STOL’ capacity & exceptional low speed handling. The Graf Zeppelin was launched in December 1938 but was never completed. The Fi-167’s were then employed on experimental projects before nine of the aircraft were sold to Romania in 1943.