B-47 Stratojet Bomber

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

I would like to dedicate this thread to the B-47 and kick it off with this video...

B-47 Stratojet Pilot's Familiarization (1952)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSE6TbjSMOY&feature=youtu.be&list=PLA8EauFaBPYJ5uyukrBYAOHHUZSkJwIjh

Carry on.

 

[Flyingvan911]

Wow.

 

[GoldComet6]

The B-47 has always been an advanced and cool aircraft. Definitely ahead of it's time! Just a great plane!

Stratojet: Meet Your Boeing B-47 - Restored Color - 1954


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilu3NSvl3Ow

 

[GoldComet6]

Boeing B-47 Stratojet Combat Maneuvers


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIgTAtj4E4

 

[Warthog]

Jimmy Stewart in Strategic Air Command

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command_(film)

 

[Tracer]

Yes, Strategic Air Command has some B-47 and B-36 footage, love the B-47 JATO takeoffs.

 

[M813rc]

In the mid-70s, I lived on the approach path to the Corpus Christi NAS, and was lucky enough to see Navy B-47s landing there. I thought them beautiful planes.
(For a plane-mad kid, that was a great place to live!).

If I recall correctly, these were EB-47Es, and though the Navy said at the time that they were weather planes, they were actually electronic warfare types. Later research leads me to believe there were only ever two of these aircraft, so I was especially lucky to have seen them.

The 1960s-80s were a great time for aeroplane watching. There were so many types flying then.

Cheers

 

[M813rc]

I looked at my picture files, and have pictures of three different B-47s in Navy markings. Two are the EB-47Es, 52-4100 and 52-4120.
A third is 53-2104, which has obviously had the USAF markings cleaned off and Navy applied, don't know anything about that one.

Cheers

PS - a net search shows 52-4120 preserved and on display at Dyess AFB, TX, and 53-2104 preserved with the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, but with the "Navy" marking now cleaned off and replaced with "US Air Force"!

 

[Gunzy]

Sweet, my father was maintenance on them in the late '50s early '60s before he went to Air America.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

December 7th, 2015.


The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Pooler, GA (over by Savannah) has a lovely example of one, regrettably there are probably none of these flying, but then the B-52 was the next iteration and it is still going so many years later, just lacking the grace of the B-47.

 

[jimk]

8th Air Force Museum. Savanna Georgia, 2011. Cockpit is the MIG's.