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How Nazi Aerodynamics, Rocket Boosters, and the ‘Coffin Corner’ Forged the B-47’s Daring Legacy
Was the B-47 Stratojet just too good for its own time, or did its revolutionary engineering compel an entire generation of pilots and designers to reconsider what was possible and survivable in ...
Key Points - The Boeing B-47 Stratojet, developed in the late 1940s as the first US jet-powered medium bomber, was a technological marvel featuring a revolutionary swept-wing and podded-engine design ...
The B-47 was so aerodynamically clean that generating the drag necessary to slow down and land safely required the use of drogue parachutes. The B-47 Stratojet, a Cold War-era strategic bomber, ...
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