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

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    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 Bombardment Wing, Medium, based at MacDill AFB, Florida. In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy directed the phaseout of the B-47.

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

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    Built at Boeing Seattle as XB-47. The second XB-47 built, after 46-65. First flight 21 July 1948. Test flown at Edwards AFB. In 1954 46-65 was scrapped, making 46-66 the oldest B-47 in existence, and the only surviving XB-47. Previously displayed at the since-closed Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum at the former Chanute AFB, Illinois. Returned ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 825th Strategic Aerospace Division - Wikipedia

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    384th Bombardment wing B-47 landing at Little Rock. The division was first activated by Strategic Air Command (SAC) as the 825th Air Division on 1 August 1955 to act as host and command organization for two Boeing B-47 Stratojet units, the 70th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and the 384th Bombardment Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas.

  6. 424th Bombardment Squadron - Wikipedia

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    The squadron was activated for a third time in September 1958 as Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s Boeing B-47 Stratojet fleet reached a peak of twenty-seven wings [6] In 1958, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings of SAC assumed an alert posture at their home bases, reducing the amount of time spent on alert at overseas bases.

  7. Boeing XB-56 - Wikipedia

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    Thus 4 × 8500 lb f = 34,000 lb f (150 kN) using that engine, as compared to 6 × 5,200 lb f = 31,200 lb f (139 kN) in the production B-47. Thus the conversion would be lighter, simpler and more powerful. [1] A contract was signed with Boeing in January 1950, calling for rework of one aircraft. A B-47B-20-BW (s/n 50-082) was earmarked for the ...

  8. 1956 B-47 disappearance - Wikipedia

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    The 1956 B-47 disappearance was an aviation incident during the Cold War in which a United States Air Force Boeing B-47 Stratojet vanished over the Mediterranean Sea on March 10, 1956, during a routine mission. Despite extensive search efforts, no aircraft or device remains were recovered. The crew were declared dead.

  9. Alert crew - Wikipedia

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    With the introduction of B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft, SAC alert crew members would live apart from the main complex of their respective air base, typically in a Readiness Crew Building known as a "Mole Hole", adjacent to an Alert Apron / Alert Ramp facility colloquially named a "Christmas Tree".