The B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of drogue parachutes. The B-47 Stratojet, a Cold War-era strategic bomber ...

Bullish - Video Cold War B-47 Bombers: US Air Force Missions over French Morocco & Libya Posted: April 8, 2025 | Last updated: April 8, 2025 The film discusses the United States' involvement in ...

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 ...

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 ...