The Boeing B-47 Stratojet: Strategic Air Command's Transitional Bomber

by Robert Hopkins III and Robert S. Hopkins III

The B-47 was the aircraft upon which Strategic Air Command (SAC) based its capability pending the development and delivery of the B-52. First proposed during the Second World War as a high-speed piston-powered reconnaissance platform, the B-47 evolved into what would become the first swept-wing, medium jet bomber and SAC's most numerous operational aircraft. Given its pioneering role as a jet bomber and the ongoing evolution of SAC's mission and US...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191080908X
• ISBN13: 9781910809082
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.3"