File:Starboard forward quarter, B-47 at Castle AFB (4687061877).jpg
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This airplane, appropriately named "Spriit of the Air Force" for its last mission, was the subject of thousands of hours of volunteer maintenance to make it air-worthy enough to complete its last flight, to Castle AFB. It landed, and was rolled out to the museum area. By a very large margin, this was the last B-47 flight and its unlikely there will ever be another. The B-47 distilled everything Boeing knew about fast, heavy and high-flying bombers, and mixed it with everything the Germans had discovered about swept surfaces and transonic drag. The result was a "bomber" which could be rolled, which possessed very few straight lines, and not an inch of parallel sided, severely practical fuselage which characterized the B-29, KC-97, Model 377 Stratoliner., etc. One Boeing characteristic of the B-47 was the wings. VERY strong, they were also surprisingly flexable The wouldk me alarm 98-5-1-19A-sc |
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Starboard forward quarter, B-47 at Castle AFB
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Author | Bill Abbott |
Camera location | 37° 22′ 01.48″ N, 120° 34′ 46.8″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 37.367079; -120.579668 |
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