The aircraft was capable of only daylight photography ... This RB-47 was retired from active service in 1966. The post Boeing's B-47 Stratojet Goes Cold War Spying: The story of the RB-47 appeared ...

The B-47 Stratojet was introduced in 1951 as a long-range, high-altitude, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-47 was designed to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft and deliver nuclear weapons deep ...

11033243.2 At the end of the Second World War in August 1945 large numbers of U.S. bombers were scrapped. This included not only the B-17 and the B-24, but also the, at that time still modern, B-29.