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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 through the 1950s. It carried the same bomb load as the propeller-driven B ...
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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 ...
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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 ...