[Paleo Conservative]

Not to be confused with an XB-47.

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[NonValueAdded]

In a related story, well-known actor Rip Torn was granted a Presidential pardon and appointed as head of the armed forces recruiting command. _Resident Obama made note of Rip’s prior experience with these matters.

[MindBender26]

Lived near MacDill AFB in Tampa during Cuban Missile Crisis. When they scrambled, one would always go over the house, full throttle, at about 200 feet AGL.

It WOULD get your attention!

[CholeraJoe]

I see a trackball for sighting in the Hellfires.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Thanks PC. I'd like to see some of these teenage joystick flier land THAT baby on an aircraft carrier! lol

The only bomber I loved more was the Convair B-58 Hustler. Man, now that I think of it, the targeting system was inhibited by low computer ability . . .

[RayChuang88]

I'm glad you included the picture of the B-47 Stratojet. When that plane was unveiled in 1947 it was like a plane 20 years ahead of everyone else: thin, sweptback wings and podded mount J47 jet engines that gave the plane a top speed of over 600 mph, a speed high enough that even the MiG-15 would have difficulty intercepting such a plane.

Indeed, the very configuration of the B-47 pioneered is still around with today's commercial jet airliners.