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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In public, the military praised Col. Michael McCoy for steering his disintegrating B-47 bomber away from Orlando homes. But in response to an Orlando Sentinel request, the Air Force finally reveals… ...

So it tried converting an existing bomber aircraft into a drone, as a kind of stopgap. Plus, a B-47 could accommodate the change in size and still travel 4,000 miles, but only if it refueled in ...

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 ...

An artwork by artist Peter Chilelli depicts the Boeing B-47 Stratojet nuclear-capable strategic bomber underneath the Mackinaw Bridge on Apr. 24, 1959.

Nearly 56 years have passed since a U.S. Air Force B-47 bomber left Texas and crashed into Montana's Emigrant Peak just north of Yellowstone National Park in the Paradise Valley. Debris remains on ...

The lost hydrogen bomb has been missing since 1958 when a B-47 bomber collided with another plane. The pilot of the other plane bailed out safely before his aircraft crashed.