• Aircraft:

  Boeing EB-47E Stratojet

• Reg: 53-2135 photos
• Serial #:

  44481

• Airline: United States - US Air Force (USAF)
• Photo Date: Jan 18, 2006
• Uploaded: Mar 05, 2006
• Other Location - Tucson Pima Air and Space Museum, USA - Arizona

"USA Southwest 2006" Current Markings: 376th Bombardment Wing, Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, 1964 The U.S. Army Air Forces issued its first requirement for a jet bomber in 1943. However, it was not until after the war, when German research on high-speed aircraft became available that the design of the B-47 was finalized. The B-47 became the first all jet bomber produced anywhere in the world. Over two thousand Stratojets were built between 1947 and 1957. During the early 1960s a number of B-47E models were converted for use as electronic intelligence gathering aircraft. Additional antennas were mounted on the aircraft and a "capsule" was installed in the aircraft's bomb bay that carried additional equipment to monitor radar and radio signals as well as two additional crew members.

Photographer

Aircraft

Gilles ASTRE 53-2135

508 2 0 Boeing EB-47E Stratojet

Terry Figg 53-2135

540 1 0 Boeing EB-47E Stratojet

Santiago Blánquez 53-2135

1,083 6 0 Boeing EB-47E Stratojet

Photo location

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Photographer

Radek Oneksiak N605UP

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Radek Oneksiak N605UP

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