The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet ...

Lt. Obenauf climbed back into the his rear pilots seat and elected to fly the plane down at 450 miles per hour, in below freezing temperatures with an open cockpit. Dyess officials said Lt. Obenauf radioed Civil Aeronautics Administrations towers, nearby airbases and another B-47 crew in the area.

Jan 17, 2018 · The crew chief who tried to close the entrance door of the B-47 in flight was Norman Jones. I was once a B-47 crew chief at Homestead and worked with Norman Jones in civil service at Robins AFB GA. Norman died about 10 years ago.

The bomber had ejection seats for the crew. Defensive armament: 2x 20 mm M24A1 cannons in remotely controlled tail turret. Maximum bomb load 25,000 lbs (11,340 kg).

The size of the crew (three men) was unusually small for an aircraft of the size and complexity of the B-47, with the three-member crew having to confront more than three hundred gauges, dials, switches, and levers. The B-47 went through a long gestation period during which many problems

Crew workload was also high, with only three crew members to keep the B-47 flying right. The B-52, in contrast, generally had six crewmembers, with much less cramped accommodations. The B-47's reliability and serviceability were also regarded as good.

Feb 2, 2016 · With the B-52 and long range ballistic missiles coming into the inventory, Secretary of Defense MacNamara decided to retire the B-47 fleet. Most of the B-47 crews transitioned to the B-52...

Ejection seats were awarded to both the pilot and the bombardier - the former with the seat up, the latter with the seat down. The B-47A model remained in service until 1952, followed by the improved B-47B model. The B-47B was the first true operational form of the Stratojet, and the USAF ordered about 87 of them.

The six-engine Boeing B-47 was America’s first multiengine swept-wing jet bomber. Its thin 116-foot wing was extraordinarily flexible and swept back at a 35-degree angle. Eighteen small rocket units in the fuselage provided jet-assisted takeoff (JATO), and parachutes cut its landing speeds.

Co-pilot seat on swivel base, rotating 180º to face rearward. to operate the rear gun controls