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 ...

Having all the capabilities of the aforementioned aircraft as well as superior speed made the B-47 an ideal reconnaissance platform. The first reconnaissance variant of the B-47 came to be known ...

Which could develop and produce a long-range strategic bomber and make enough of them to keep the other country on its toes? This led to the development of bombers like the B-47, a record ...

In the annals of the Aviation History site, one will find the B-47 recorded as the first jet-powered strategic bomber to enter service with the USAF. Developed in the early era of the jet age, when ...

Abstract: THE FIRST large-scale use of flowmeters based on the conservation of momentum principle was employed in the B-47 airplane to measure fuel flow rates to the jet engines. This paper describes ...

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 ...