Talk:Boeing B-47 Stratojet

message: "The aircraft's maximum speed was limited to  to avoid control reversal..."
That must be 425 knots IAS or CAS or EAS or something-- not TAS anyway? If so, that should be spelled out. Tim Zukas (talk) 22:35, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limit speed 

message: The Wikipedia MiG-15 article mentions the following incident. Should it also be in this article?
17 April 1955: The MiG-15 pilots Korotkov and Sazhin shot down an RB-47E north of the Kamchatka peninsula – all three crewmembers perished.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbmccarthy (talk • contribs) 10:16, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as it has a reliable source, why not. A more tantilizing story might be . Buffs (talk) 03:57, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There is now an article about the latter incident: 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 18:47, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  RB-47 shot down 1955 

message: There is a photo down in the "Variants" section which has a caption reading:
"Last flight of a B-47: in 1986, (52-0166) was restored to flying condition and ferried from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to Castle AFB for display"
But slightly below this, in the EB-47E section, it claims that:
"These two aircraft were the last B-47s in operational service, and 52-0410 performed the very last operational flight of a B-47 on 20 December 1977, when it was flown to Pease AFB, NH and put on display at the main gate."
I can see that one says "the last flight" and the other says "the last operational flight", but I fail to see the subtle difference. They were both being ferried to another place for display. Was one still technically on the Air Force books, while the other had been written off and was technically in civilian possession at the time, or what? A little detail would be nice. .45Colt 14:38, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction on the last flight of a B-47. 

message: The Operational History mentions a three-man crew multiple times, as does the specification of B-47E. Yet several crash descriptions mention four-man crews, including B-47E and B. All I can find about larger crews in the article is sections on EB-47E and RB-47H which appears to indicate two or three extra aircrew, giving a total of five or six. Needs to be clarified. Rcbutcher (talk) 02:41, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Three or four man crew ?

message: so I see that most of the crashes are not listed here.  Maybe make a separate page containing a list showing every crash and date?  The son of a b47 pilot told me today (Feb 2024) a story about a crash here in Riverside California.  In the story he said they had special training crew members (examiners?) who would cause a problem on the aircraft and see how the crew reacts.  He said this plane crashed because they purposefully turned off one of the engines, to see how everything would go.  He told me his father would not let the examiner touch his planes controls after the crash. Typical public relations, the Air Force did not point out this fact regarding the aircraft crash.  Odd there was a chaplain on the aircraft?  
https://web.archive.org/web/20150709114519/http://www.march.afrc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123227987
13 October
A Boeing B-47B-40-BW Stratojet, 51-2231, of the 320th Bombardment Wing, crashes while taking off from March Air Force Base, California, coming down in what is now the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park, northwest of the base. Capt. Edward Anthony O'Brien Jr., pilot, Capt. David James Clare, co-pilot, Major Thomas Francis Mulligan, navigator, and Capt. Joseph M. Graeber, chaplain, are all killed. Crew chief Albert Meyer, of Westchester, California, was not flying with his aircraft that day because he had already exceeded his flight hours. In the accident report, Col. Frederic Huish, investigation board president, concluded the primary cause of the accident was unknown, due to lack of positive evidence.— Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Ruderod (talk • contribs) 05:56, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "list of crashes" 

message: First of all, this is kind of informal and a period term, it should be "nuclear weapons of the era" or something more encyclopedic. Second, "A-bombs" are not every big, not even in that era. Bomb bay space is useful for large amounts of conventional weapons or for large hydrogen bombs, but they could easily have fit a bomb bar large enough to fit an "A-bomb", whatever kind of gear they used. Little Boy and Fat Man were not that large, and this was almost a decade later. By the 1950s they were carrying atomic bombs under fighter bombers like the F-84F, and in bombers like the A3D. So the tandem gear (that's how they always call it in USAF material, never heard it called "bicycle gear") was not "to allow a bomb long enough for an A-bomb".
Idumea47b (talk) 02:40, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The aircraft was designed in 1945 and first flew in 1947, so the size of nuclear weapons in the 1950s isn't really relevant - also the fact is cited.Nigel Ish (talk) 18:48, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "A-bombs" 

message: Much like the beloved B-52, the B-47 gives zero care about the environment with its extremely dirty RATO's. Taffy boeing b 17 (talk) 17:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Take Offs