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27 mar 2014 · This is a list of virtually all known known B-47 losses covering from 1949 through Dec 1965. From the XB-47 all the way through the years the B-47s flew.
16 wrz 2018 · B-47 Strato-jet Bomber crashes were numerous in the early 1950’s. I was and my family were victims of the B-47 crash on July 22, 1952 in a small country town in Marianna, Fl. This was a round robin navigation and radar bombing training mission on the Eglin bomb range using four (4) 500 lb. sand filled bombs with a 4 lb. spotting charge.
On 2 May 1961, a B-47 crashed eight miles southwest of Hurley, Wisconsin, only a few miles from the scene of a prior B-47 crash on 24 February 1961. Two of four crew survived. Evidence showed that it was steeply diving when the crash occurred.
Bombowiec średniego zasięgu, zdolny do osiągania prędkości przydźwiękowych. Jego zadaniem była penetracja przestrzeni powietrznej ZSRR. Był podstawową maszyną amerykańskich sił uderzeniowych w latach 50, do czasu, gdy zastąpiony został w tej roli przez samolot Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Oprócz tego służył też w wersji RB-47 ...
1 lut 2013 · This article focuses on the two peak years, 1957 and 1958, when 49 B-47s crashed—incurring 122 fatalities. There were a number of reasons for this doleful toll. The Stratojet, never called so by its crews, introduced a new flight performance regime requiring new skills and greater precision.
Accident rates and fatalities skyrocketed. The B-47 was unusual in that through 1955, the accident rate rose with the number of flying hours, then stabilized for four years (see “A Dangerous...
3 lut 2008 · On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet. Fifty years later, the bomb -- which...
