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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A B-47 in Lincoln on Dec 7, 1965. The innovative bomber played a crucial role in the Cold War, but 203 of them crashed, killing 436 crew members. B-47 Association veteran Bob Culp examines the ...