William Green, the famed English aviation historian, has described the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) as that "...remarkable slow-flying Fi 156 (that) was so appropriately named. This unpretentious, somewhat bizarre braced monoplane, with its extensive high-lift devices, bulged transparent 'conservatory', and stalky, long-stroke undercarriage designed to absorb the high impact of high vertical descent rates, perhaps most completely represented army cooperation and observation aircraft ideas of the mid 'thirties ...".