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First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
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Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Cold War-era American jet bomber
The Boeing B-47 Stratojet is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Strategic bomber
Type of military aircraft
A strategic bomber is a medium-to-long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, penetrators, fighter-bombers, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)