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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a chilly morning in 1951, the outline of a revolutionary airplane appeared in the skies as the Boeing B-47 Stratojet etched its name in the history books. The B-47 was not only a reflection of post ...