U.S. defense strategy evolves with 6th-generation aircraft, including the B-21 Raider and F-47, promising advances in stealth ...

The B-47 Bomber. In 1944, shortly before the end of the Second World War, the U.S. Army Air Forces, the forerunner to the U.S. Air Force, issued a requirement for a medium bomber powered by jet ...

The B-47 Stratojet was introduced in 1951 as a long-range, high-altitude, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-47 was designed to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft and deliver nuclear weapons deep ...

T he B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of drogue parachutes.. T he B-47 Stratojet, a Cold War-era strategic bomber ...

Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in a reconnaissance role as the RB-47 to monitor the Soviet military and ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Nearly six decades after his last flight, retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gary Lee stood on the flightline ...

Modern aircraft in the U.S. Air Force is all, to some extent, derived from the B-47 Stratojet - one of the first jet-engine military planes in service.