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B-47E Stratojet | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:15 1 Development
00:01:24 1.1 Origins
00:03:22 1.2 Swept wings
00:05:52 1.3 USAAF selection of Boeing
00:07:57 1.4 Second X-model
00:11:24 1.5 X-model competitions
00:12:33 2 Design
00:12:42 2.1 Overview
00:15:31 2.2 Engines and performance
00:18:38 2.3 Drag chutes
00:20:24 2.4 Production numbers
00:20:39 3 Operational history
00:20:49 3.1 Early years
00:23:28 3.2 Training and problems
00:24:58 3.3 Prime years
00:28:11 3.4 Later years
00:31:43 3.5 Reconnaissance
00:37:17 4 Variants
00:53:07 5 Operators
01:16:03 6 Surviving aircraft
01:16:38 7 Accidents and incidents
01:16:56 8 Specifications (B-47E)
01:28:18 9 Notable appearances in media
01:32:11 10 See also
01:32:22 11 References



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The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (company 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 B-47's primary mission was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking the Soviet Union. With its engines carried in nacelles under the swept wing, the B-47 was a major innovation in post-World War II combat jet design, and contributed to the development of modern jet airliners.
The B-47 entered service with the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) in 1951. It never saw combat as a bomber, but was a mainstay of SAC's bomber strength during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and remained in use as a bomber until 1965. It was also adapted to a number of other missions, including photographic reconnaissance, electronic intelligence, and weather reconnaissance, remaining in service as a reconnaissance aircraft until 1969 and as a testbed until 1977.