The Stratojet made her maiden flight on December 17, 1947, and officially entered U.S. Air Force service in June 1951. Compared with the Peacemaker that preceded her, the Stratojet was relatively ...

In 2001, a Department of Energy hydrographic survey suggested that the bomb was buried between five and 15 feet of silt. The Air Force has continually assured the public that... The B-47 was so ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11033243.2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11033243.2 At the end of the Second World War in August 1945 large numbers of U.S. bombers were ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition – B-47 Stratojet The Boeing B-47 was the first swept-wing multi-engine bomber in service with the USAF. It was ...

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was the United States Air Force's first jet-powered and first swept-wing bomber. This iconic and innovative aircraft was a hybrid. It mixed the construction techniques of ...

In 1957 cameras caught a jaw-dropping moment: a B‑47 Stratojet (130,000 lb) roaring in low, then yanking into a steep climb and flipping as a bomb launches backwards from its belly. But this wasn’t a ...