Explosive Power: How JATO Rockets Transformed B-47s and Aviation History

Six General Electric J35 turbojets and Jet-Assisted Take Off (JATO) rockets powered the Boeing B-47 Stratojet. Boeing designed the B-47 as a long-range strategic bomber capable of flying at high subsonic speeds fast enough to avoid enemy interceptors. The first Stratojet flew in 1947 as the United States and the Soviet Union began deploying nuclear-capable […]

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