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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 B-47 Stratojet became an essential component of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as a nuclear bomber and a reconnaissance aircraft. Designed to meet a 1944 requirement, the first XB-47 prototype flew in December 1947, performing far beyond its competitors.
B-47 Stratojet – odrzutowy samolot bombowy, konstrukcji amerykańskiej. Historia. Prace nad bombowcami odrzutowymi w zakładach Boeinga trwały od 1943 r. Po zakończeniu II wojny światowej wykorzystano zdobyte informacje o opracowanych podobnych konstrukcjach w III Rzeszy. W zakładach w Seattle zbudowano dwa prototypy XB-47 [1].
2 lis 2011 · September 27, 2010 - Strategic Air Command (SAC) Museum, Ashland, NE. Quick and dirty, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, tour. My Dad didn't come in with me as he'd given me the annotated tour earlier,...
Cockpit / Flight Deck. The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was described as highly advanced with a sleek and stunning outcome. The 35-degree swept annexes were shouldered-fixed, with the dual inboard turbojet engines. It also has an outboard engine mounted below the wings squat of the wingtips.
17 mar 2012 · Boeing B-47 Stratojet history, specifications, schematics, pictures, and data.
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.
