The Boeing B-47 Stratojet is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic aircraft designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. | War History Online

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 World War 2 with an aerodynamic design fit for the jet engines' era during the latter half of the 20th century. The B-47 was the cornerstone of the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War, where it primarily served as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union. The crews of