Between 1947 and 1957, Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed built over 2,000 Stratojets. At its peak use in 1958, the USAF operated 28 B-47 bomb wings and four RB-47 reconnaissance wings, totaling 1,357 B ...

Meet the B-47: The Boeing B-47 Statrojet was the first pure jet strategic bomber; yes, the B-36 did have four General Electric J47 turbojet engines, but six piston-driven engines outnumbered them ...

Key Points – The Boeing B-47 Stratojet, developed in the late 1940s as the first US jet-powered medium bomber, was a technological marvel featuring a revolutionary swept-wing and podded-engine ...

By 1965, however, the B-47 was on its way out, with the more capable (and still-serving) B-52 Stratofortress becoming the preeminent bomber of the SAC. Designing the B-47 Stratojet ...

Boeing RB-47H at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo) Both the RB-47E and RB-47H were variants of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet, a strategic bomber used by the ...

"We're getting old. It's heartbreaking to see it go down. But it has to go," says retired Col. Don Cassiday, president of the B-47 Stratojet Association.