Lockheed B-47 Stratojet

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 08/19/2015 at 12:55 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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Yes, you read that right.

From Lockheed Martin’s !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! :

The first B-47 Stratojet medium bomber built under license by Lockheed was flown in December 1952. By mid 1955 when this photo was taken, the 3.4 million-square-foot B-1 assembly building at the Lockheed-Georgia Company facility in Marietta, Georgia, was filled with both new B-47s coming down the assembly line (background) and separately, Stratojets being modified (foreground). Lockheed built 394 new B-47s under license from 1952 to 1957, delivering 120 aircraft in 1955. The company also modified nearly 3,000 of these six-jet, swept-wing bombers—including 764 in 1955 alone—from 1954 to 1962 under sixteen different avionics or nuclear weapons programs. Forty years later, this same area of the plant was the middle of the F-22 Raptor final assembly line.

CB > Jcarr 08/19/2015 at 12:59

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I like how the cockpit just makes it look like a really big fighter jet.

MonkeePuzzle > Jcarr 08/19/2015 at 13:22

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exposed jet engines always look so sci fi, like a star wars scene

ttyymmnn > CB 08/19/2015 at 15:12

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The prototype B-52 also had a tandem cockpit, but Curtis LeMay, the head of SAC, wanted a more traditional side-by-side configuration. He tended to get what he wanted. That’s the Northrop X-4 in the foreground.