#Boeing B-47 Stratojet

[lonestarflight]

"A portrayal of the Air Force's latest here as the B-47, B-45, and F-86 pass overhead in close formation during the demonstration for President Truman at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida."

Date: April 21, 1950

NARA: 350287633

[stone-cold-groove]

Run away on the runway.

[blackros78]

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

[usafphantom2]

B-47 ready to Refuel

@AcePilotAv via X

[longislandairpower]

The B-29 first flew in 1942. The B-47 first flew in 1947. What a leap in aeronautics we made in those 5 years!

It’s also a reminder that as futuristic as the B-47 was, it was manufactured with WWII technology.

(That’s B-50 at top, a B-29 on the bottom.)

[nocternalrandomness]

B-47E Bomber displayed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington

[dronescapesvideos]

Originally, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet was equipped with internal JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) rockets.

➤➤ B-47 Video: https://youtu.be/WVlCdrag0AI

➤➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/b47

[enriquemzn262]

Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

[dangerousthingobservation]

Boeing B-47 Stratojet

[2sundowner69]

Getty Images, Boeing B 47 Stratojet

[lonestarflight]

A Boeing B-47 Stratojet taking off with the assistance of JATOs (Jet Assist Take off), from the Portsmouth Air Force Base, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Date: February 8, 1956

NARA: 6925452

[stone-cold-groove]

A KC-135 tanker refueling a Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.17 (after 1940)

1943 – All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act. 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper. 1945 – Kurdistan flag day, the flag of Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran). 1947 – First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. 1948 – The Finnish Security Police is established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. 1950 – The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea. 1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1960 – Troops loyal to Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt. 1960 – Munich C-131 crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed. 1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500. 1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, and is presumed drowned. 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. 1970 – Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens. 1973 – Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. 1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire. 1989 – Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years. 1989 – The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". 1997 – Peruvian internal conflict: 14 members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement provoke a hostage crisis by taking over the Japanese embassy in Lima. 1997 – Aerosvit Flight 241: A Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the Pierian Mountains near Thessaloniki Airport in Thessaloniki, Greece, killing all 70 people on board. 2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years. 2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. 2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight. 2003 – Sex work rights activists establish December 17 (or "D17") as International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers to memorialize victims of a serial killer who targeted prostitutes, and highlight State violence against sex workers by police and others.[18] 2005 – Anti-World Trade Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. 2005 – Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. 2009 – MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals. 2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them in 1961.

[usafphantom2]

A Northrop YB-49 flying next to a Boeing XB-47 Stratojet.

@Destroye83 via X

[47burlm]

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 primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union.

[nocternalrandomness]

1950 photograph of a Boeing B-47E Stratojet