Profile – Boeing B-47 Stratojet

Once the backbone of America’s Strategic Air Command . . .

Boeing’s 8-47 Stratojet

After the Second World War the United States of America emerged as the strongest military power in the world.

Although its air force, changed from USAAF to USAF in September, 1947, had been cut down from its massive wartime size: on its strength there still remained a large number of highly skilled and experienced air crew; it had a new, awesome and frightening nuclear capability; and an equally intimidating new bomber force born in March, 1946, called the Strategic Air Command (SAC). To deliver its weaponry, SAC had the already battle proven Boeing B-29 Superfortress. By 1948 its global capacity was also greatly boosted by the introduction of the more powerful and improved B-50 and the huge Convair 8- 36, a machine which had actually been designed during WW2 to bomb targets in Europe from bases in the USA. •

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