Boeing B-47 Stratojet

In the 1960s this aircraft (serial 53-2280) was used as a test bed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base under the designation JB-47E. It was the first USAF aircraft with a fly-by-wire control system. It was transferred to the Museum in 1969 and displayed until 2003. It is currently stored outside the museum's Restoration Hangar.

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Boeing B-47E
Stratojet

The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was a long-range, six- engined, jet-powered medium bomber built to fly at high subsonic speeds and at high altitudes. It was primarily designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. The B-47 was the first swept-wing bomber. It entered service in 1951 and served thorough the late 1960s.

 
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