Boeing B-47 Stratojet - Wikipedia
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.
Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet Goes Cold War Spying: The story of the RB-47
4 天之前 · 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 ...
Boeing B-47 Stratojet of the USAF, design, production numbers ...
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 after World War II. Boeing engineers had envisioned a jet-powered plane as early as 1943.
Boeing WB-47E Stratojet - Museum of Flight
The B-47 Stratojet is one of the most important aircraft ever designed by The Boeing Company. It was the world's first large swept-wing aircraft, ushering in a long line of jet bombers and civil transports.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet - Aero Corner
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet is a long-array, jet- power-driven, six-engine strategic bomber intended to fly at maximum altitudes and at high subsonic speeds, to prevent enemies from intercepting. The mission of this aircraft was to drop nuclear explosives on the Soviet Union.
The B-47 Stratojet - The Aviation Geek Club
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet represented a milestone in aviation history and a revolution in aircraft design. In fact it incorporated many advanced features for the time, including swept wings, jet engines in underwing pods, fuselage mounted main landing gear and automated systems that reduced the standard crew size to three.
Boeing B-47 Stratojet - History - Strategic Air Command
With the speed and maneuverability of the fighters of the late forties, Boeing's swept-wing XB-47 won the bomber competition and swiftly transformed the XB-46 and the XB-48 into aviation footnotes.
B-47 Versions | B-47 Stratojet Historical Website
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was a medium-range, strategic bombardment aircraft developed around a shoulder-mounted wing with a 35 degree sweep back wing with six podded engines slung below the wing. As in almost every case of aircraft development later and better design and uses become the normal.
Boeing B-47
The B-47 was the world’s first swept wing bomber and the first to use a bicycle arrangement landing gear, which was necessary because of the thin wings. It was also the first plane built solely for the delivery of nuclear weapons.
B-47 Stratojet: The Mother of All Jet Bombers - AMZ Newspaper
2024年12月6日 · The B-47 drastically altered the landscape of aviation design, introducing the efficiency and viability of jet-powered, swept-wing aircraft. This revolutionary design originated from a pivotal moment when Boeing engineers, utilizing swept-wing jet data from a German laboratory, envisioned the B-47.