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 …

Boeing produced 32 newly built RB-47Hs and converted three B-47Es into ERB-47Hs. The RB-47H first entered service in August 1955. Over the next decade, RB-47H crews of the 55th …

Apr 24, 2024 · A U.S. Air Force RB-47E Stratojet reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Strategic Air Command pilot Capt. John Stanley Lappo was said to have flown underneath the Mackinaw …

On 1 July 1960, a United States RB-47H reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing signals intelligence in the Barents Sea, near the Kola …

Jan 1, 2025 · Originally designed as a medium bomber, the B-47 also had a lesser known and more secretive role in the Cold War, serving in a reconnaissance role as the RB-47 to monitor …

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was the first swept wing jet bomber and the first to be designed to carry nuclear weapons. The design of the B-47 relied on swept wing data captured from Germany …

The B-47 was the first all-jet production bomber in the Air Force and was the backbone of SAC's bomber fleet in the 1950s. The B-47 was classified as a medium bomber and was not intended …

The USAF phased out its last B-47 bombers in 1965, and retired its last Stratojet, a WB-47E, in 1969. The RB-47E carried one forward-looking camera in the nose and up to six cameras in …

The RB-47H was an electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures version of the B-47E. It was built in response to a mid 1951 requirement laid down for an aircraft that would be capable of

The upgraded RB-47H included a number of new features: a separate pressurized compartment in the area formerly occupied by the short bomb bay housed the aircraft's new electronic …