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 ...

Key Points – The Boeing B-47 Stratojet, developed in the late 1940s as the first US jet-powered medium bomber, was a technological marvel featuring a revolutionary swept-wing and podded-engine ...

The six-engine configuration was also distinct—and more importantly, powerful; when the B-47 rolled off the assembly line in the late 1940s, the type was regarded as the fastest bomber in the world.

Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, ... Powered by six General Electric J47-GE-25 turbojet engines, ...

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