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  2. Boeing B-47 Stratojet - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet ...

  3. List of B-47 units of the United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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    Boeing B-47B-20-BW Stratojet, AF Ser. No. 50-0062, Redesignated NTB-47B in August 1961. Currently on static display at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum , Pooler, Georgia The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was operational with the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command beginning in May 1951 with the first operational B-47Bs to the 306th ...

  4. List of surviving Boeing B-47 Stratojets - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing B-47 Stratojet is an American jet-engine Strategic Bomber used by the United States ... Oklahoma, marked as 520413. Manufacturer's plate shows MSN to be ...

  5. 51st Bombardment Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The squadron received second-line RB-29 Superfortresses in May 1952, remaining in a second-line status with this equipment until 1953 when the squadron was brought up to full personnel strength and received new B-47 Stratojet bombers. Becoming operationally ready with the B-47 in May 1954, the 51 Bombardment squadron conducted strategic ...

  6. General Electric J47 - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturer General Electric: First run 21 June 1947 Major applications: Boeing B-47 Stratojet Convair B-36 Peacemaker North American B-45 Tornado North American F-86 Sabre: Number built: 36,500 Developed from: General Electric J35: Developed into: General Electric J73

  7. 820th Strategic Aerospace Division - Wikipedia

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    The division was activated as the 820th Air Division in 1956 to command the two Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings planned for Plattsburgh. However, the arrival of the second wing was delayed, and in 1959 the 820th was assigned two SAC Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic wings and air refueling wings at bases in New York and Maine. Although the ...

  8. Boeing XB-55 - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing XB-55 (company designation Model 474) was a proposed Boeing aircraft designed to be a strategic bomber. The XB-55 was intended to be a replacement for the Boeing B-47 Stratojet in United States Air Force (USAF) service.

  9. 1956 B-47 disappearance - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing B-47 Stratojet, call-sign Inkspot 59, from the 306th Bombardment Wing/369th Bomb Squadron, took off from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, in the United States for a non-stop flight to Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco. [1] They completed the first of two planned aerial refuelings without incident. [2]