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From www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-wb-47e-stratojet Boeing WB-47E Stratojet The B-47 Stratojet remains one of the most important aircraft ever designed by The Boeing Company. More than fifty years ago, the B-47 emerged as the world's first large multi-engine swept-wing airplane -- a design configuration that became the standard for all modern jetliners. In addition to its 35-degree swept wings, the B-47 featured pod-mounted engines and "bicycle" landing gear, which marked a daring…

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Written by Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF Operation Chromedome was a top secret military exercise conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It evolved as the “Cold War” heated and …

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