The B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of drogue parachutes. The B-47 Stratojet, a Cold War-era strategic bomber, ...

Summary: The B-47 Stratojet, the U.S.’s first jet bomber, was introduced in 1951, marking a significant transition in military aviation. -Designed for high-altitude, long-range missions to deliver ...

The story of another nuclear weapon unaccounted for in the U.S. There have been a lot of articles about the famous collision of a B-47 carrying a nuclear bomb, with a F-86 over the skies of Georgia ...

With a few coats of paint and some shiny new U.S. Air Force decals, the most visible airplane of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force was revamped in recent weeks. The large, six-engine ...

Sixty years ago this week a person standing next to Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge might have been witness to an amazing sight: a six engine U.S. Air Force nuclear bomber flying between the spans of the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. OLD CHICO — Fifty-nine years ago Friday, a B-47 bomber slammed into the southwestern slope of ...

65 years ago today on April 24, 1959, legend has it that an aviation stunt so bizarre it defies belief actually took place in the Mackinaw Straits between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. A ...

While two 1,780-gallon drop tanks increased range, they also marred the bomber’s clean lines and produced drag. USAF I got my first glimpse of a Boeing B-47 on an April morning in 1954, when I was a U ...