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Boeing built more than 2,000 B-47 Stratojets in ten years. Not one of them ever dropped a bomb in combat

Boeing built more than 2,000 B-47 Stratojets between 1947 and 1957, and the type formed the backbone of Strategic Air Command ...
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Boneyard files: Boeing B-47 Stratojet – the final landing of the SAC veteran

As we continue the Boneyard Files series, which showcases some of the retired aircraft that once rested at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, in the late 1960s, today’s story features ...
The Aviationist

Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet Goes Cold War Spying: The story of the RB-47

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 Soviet military and its ...
The National Interest

The B-47 Stratojet Was Too Well-Designed for Its Own Good

The B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of drogue parachutes. The B-47 Stratojet, a Cold War-era strategic bomber, ...
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Atom bomb accidentally dropped on home

Did you know that in 1958, a United States B-47 airplane accidentally dropped an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, S.C.?