Fieseler Fi 156B
The Fieseler Fi 156B was to have been a civil version of the Storch, equipped with automatic moveable slots on the wing leading edge. This would have given the aircraft a higher cruising speed than the fixed slots used on the A, C and D series, but a high cruising speed was of no interest to the Luftwaffe, and so the pre-production B-0s aircraft were the only members of the B series to be built. At least five were completed, with work numbers from 621 to 625.
Aircraft of the Luftwaffe 1935-1945, Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage.
Combines a good background history of the Luftwaffe with a comprehensive examination of its aircraft, from the biplanes of the mid 1930s to the main wartime aircraft and on to the seemingly unending range of experimental designs that wasted so much effort towards the end of the war. A useful general guide that provides an impressively wide range of information on almost every element of the Luftwaffe
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Rickard, J (5 April 2010), Fieseler Fi 156B , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_fieseler_fi_156B.html
