The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was the United States Air Force's first jet-powered and first swept-wing bomber. This iconic and innovative aircraft was a hybrid. It mixed the construction techniques of ...

In 2001, a Department of Energy hydrographic survey suggested that the bomb was buried between five and 15 feet of silt. The Air Force has continually assured the public that... The B-47 was so ...

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, ...