One of my favorite Cold War aircraft

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Taken  at the Museum of Flight today. The Soviet answer was the Bear bomber I believe.


Short synopsis of the Boeing B-47

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My uncle flew those.  More often he lived in an alert facility for days on end waiting on the word to strike the Soviet Union.

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Originally posted by -ammo-
My uncle flew those.  More often he lived in an alert facility for days on end waiting on the word to strike the Soviet Union.

Very cool Ammo. I believe they were in service a short time, as the B-52 made them obsolete for distance. I wonder if any saw Reserve service?

[Rino]

That looks like an RB-47, has that same enormous radome
under the nose that the New England Air Museum has.

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That I am unsure of.  He talked of the endless boredome during those years or waiting around in a bunker.  He said the food was good, as was the poker games.  That AC must be a static display, or does it actually fly?

[Rino]

Originally posted by -ammo-
That I am unsure of.  He talked of the endless boredome during those years or waiting around in a bunker.  He said the food was good, as was the poker games.  That AC must be a static display, or does it actually fly?

     With fuel prices the way they are, I don't think it'd fly even
if the Air Force let em

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Originally posted by Rino
With fuel prices the way they are, I don't think it'd fly even
if the Air Force let em

LOL, yep.  I paid $1.99 last week, and felt lucky!

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Originally posted by -ammo-
That I am unsure of.  He talked of the endless boredome during those years or waiting around in a bunker.  He said the food was good, as was the poker games.  That AC must be a static display, or does it actually fly?

Static, this bird sat out gathering rust in the parking lot across the street from the MOF, they finally gave her a coat of paint and dragged it onto the MOF property.

[Nilsen]

Did it have a "regular" cockpit, or was there some little room you cannot see with a toilet in it below?

Did they enter the cockpit from a hatch under the AC or did they climb in the "normal" way?

[Hangtime]

teleporter. had it since roswell.



(crew of three in a pressurized forward compartment: a pilot and copilot in a long fighter-style bubble canopy, and a navigator in a compartment in the nose. The copilot doubled as tail gunner, and the navigator as bombardier. The bubble canopy could pitch up and slide backward, but as the cockpit was high off the ground, crew entrance was through a door and ladder on the underside of the nose)

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Originally posted by Nilsen
Did it have a "regular" cockpit, or was there some little room you cannot see with a toilet in it below?

Did they enter the cockpit from a hatch under the AC or did they climb in the "normal" way?

Two seater front to back. Access from below (Made it tough for escaping the plane if you were going in) NOt sure about the toilet. Tex Johnston was the first test pilot, known more for his barrel roll of a 707 over Lake Washington. It was so underpowered with a load that they had to use JATO assistance to get her off the ground.

[MiloMorai]

Originally posted by Rino
That looks like an RB-47, has that same enormous radome
under the nose that the New England Air Museum has.

All B-47s had the large radome under the cockpit.

B-47E

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FWIW, the model I have pictured is a WB-47E Stratojet
The B-47 is the world's first large multi-engine swept-wing airplane but I'm sure Borodo will have issues with this statement.  Here are all the configurations listed:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-47-prob.htm

[Hangtime]

The King. Master and Progenator of Fear in the Kremlin.

The B-58 Supersonic Penetrator. Fastest, with the Mostest.

[Toad]

That's an RB-47.

Note the pods amidships and aft on the lower part of the fueselage.