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 Boeing B-47 Stratojet represented a milestone in aviation history and a revolution in aircraft design. In fact it incorporated many advanced features for the time, including swept wings, jet ...

Fifty years ago, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after a mid-air collision. The bomb has never been found, but historians and area residents ...

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 ...

Key Points and Summary – The Martin XB-48 was an experimental American jet bomber developed immediately after World War II. -It represents a design “stuck between two worlds,” mating six new ...

The area of Montana countryside where an Air Force plane crashed was renamed "B-47 Ridge" in honor of the airmen killed in the 1962 incident.

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 ...

OLD CHICO — Fifty-nine years ago Friday, a B-47 bomber slammed into the southwestern slope of Emigrant Peak. It was carrying four Air Force pilots, and all four men were ...

A B-47 pilot remembers when an airplane—and Curtis LeMay—stiffened the spine of the Strategic Air Command.