@ Pooler, GA
November 2021
First flown in 1947, the B-47 Stratojet was the result of a 1943 US Army Air Forces (USAAF) request for a jet-powered reconnaissance bomber. This revolutionary jet age design incorporated swept wings and jet engines carried in nacelles underneath the wing. The engine arrangement reduced the bending moment at the wing roots, saving structural weight. The engines’ mass also acted as counter-flutter weights for the slender wings. This B-47 was delivered to the USAF in 1950, converted to a JTB-47 test aircraft in 1954, and retired in 1961. Delivered to the Florence Air and Missile Museum in South Carolina in 1965, and later to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum here in Pooler, Georgia in 1998. More than 2,000 were produced and served as late as 1969. Fuji X-Pro2 w/18-135mm.
