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The B-47 Stratojet Was Too Well-Designed for Its Own Good
The B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of ...
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The Dawn of Discipline
USAF I got my first glimpse of a Boeing B-47 on an April morning in 1954, when I was a U.S. Air Force first lieutenant with about 450 hours in bombers. I was walking out to fly a rather staid base ...
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Exit Strategy
AT AN AIR FORCE FIREPOWER DEMONSTRATION HELD AT EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA on May 7, 1957, a silvery swept-wing Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber roared in low at 500 mph before a crowd of more ...