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 ...

Was the B-47 Stratojet just too good for its own time, or did its revolutionary engineering compel an entire generation of pilots and designers to reconsider what was possible and survivable in ...

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 ...

Plus, a B-47 could accommodate the change in size and still travel 4,000 miles, but only if it refueled in-flight and cruised at a lower altitude. Gone was the 10,000-pound bomb.

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 ...

The B-47 first flew in 1947 and was the Air Force's primary medium range nuclear bomber until 1965. The B-47 could cruise at 550 miles an hour and carry 25,000 pounds of bombs.

On Feb. 4, 1958, Aircraft Commander Major Howard Richardson, from the 19th Bombardment Wing, took off in a B-47B (S/N 51-2349) from Homestead AFB in Florida for a typical USCM (unit simulated ...

Overstressing the aircraft as it pulled out from the dive was a major concern—the B-47 had a structural limit of 3 Gs, and exceeding it risked catastrophic structural failure.

When Feb. 4, 2008, arrives, it will be 50 years ago that an F-86 fighter aircraft ran into the rear of my B-47 bomber at an altitude of 38,000 feet. The fighter aircraft disintegrated and the pilot… ...

The Free Press published an image Feb. 21, 1963, of an Air Force B-47 similar to the plane that crashed near Comfrey Feb. 20, 1963. The Free Press Memorial to mark site of 1963 plane crash ...