B-47 Stratojet
Subtitle: Boeing's Brilliant Bomber
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Published: May 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780071355674
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Aircraft: general interest; Military vehicles; United States; Military Aircraft; Technology; History - Military / War; Transportation; Military Science; Aviation - History; Military - Aviation; B-47,bomber,aircraft,jet,Boeing,pilot,design,B-47 Stratojet,Air,flight,history,Boyne Military Aircraft; Transportation / Aviation / History; United States; Air Force; Air Force; B-47 bomber; Strategic Air Command
First sentence: As American forces fought their way up the Italian Peninsula in Europe and through the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during summer of 1943, USAAF engineers at Wright Field were pondering the possibility of a jet bomber.