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All three Albuquerque members of the Stratojet Association were on hand today to present the check for $5,000 to Jim Walther, Director of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History.
In the 1950s the Boeing B-47 Stratojet was the backbone of the Strategic Air Command. The third aircraft company to be awarded a development contract in the 1944 Air Force competition was Boeing with a straight wing design, which housed four jet engines in the fuselage.
1 gru 1997 · The Stratojet, whose first flight was made 50 years ago this month, was the most influential multijet aircraft in aviation history. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of Strategic Air Command, seized on the B-47 to endow SAC with awesome power, equipping no fewer than 28 bombardment and five strategic reconnaissance wings with the new long-range ...
Purpose: To memorialize the veteran B-47 Aircraft as the vanguard of America's strategic nuclear deterrent during the cold war. The B-47 MUST NOT be forgotten. Background: Lt. Col. Charlie Brown, USAF(ret) was the founder.
Last Official USAF Flight Of The B-47 8. Former Crew Members Flight Hours In The B-47. 9. B-47 Wings In The Strategic Air Command 10. The B-47 General Arrangements and Measurements 11. Preserved B-47″s on Static Display and Their Locations. 12. Obtaining An SA&SM Memorial Walk Brick 13. The Historic First Flight of the XB-47 14.
The B-47 became the first true modern bomber to fill the ranks of General Curtiss Lemay's new Strategic Air Command. With long range, high altitude capabilities, the "Stratojet" became the backbone of SAC in the early 1950s.
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.
