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The Boeing B-47 Stratojet (Boeing company designation Model 450) is a retired American long-range, six-engined, turbojet-powered strategic bomber designed to fly at high subsonic speed and at high altitude to avoid enemy interceptor aircraft. The primary mission of the B-47 was as a nuclear bomber capable of striking targets within the Soviet ...
Boeing B-47B-20-BW Stratojet, AF Ser. No. 50-0062, Redesignated NTB-47B in August 1961. Currently on static display at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum , Pooler, Georgia The Boeing B-47 Stratojet was operational with the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command beginning in May 1951 with the first operational B-47Bs to the 306th ...
Aida de Acosta flying the airship Baladeuse in 1903 – the first woman to pilot a powered aircraft. This is a list of women aviators — women prominent in the field of aviation as constructors, designers, pilots and patrons. It also includes a list of their relevant organisations such as the Betsy Ross Air Corps and Women's Royal Air Force
A trained nurse and pilot, Church wanted to pilot commercial aircraft, but those jobs were not open to women. Still wanting to fly, Church successfully worked to convince Boeing Air Transport that using nurses as flight-stewardesses would increase safety and help convince passengers that flying was safe. Their first flight took off on May 15, 1930.
Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman to fly the Boeing 747, the first woman to captain a 747 trans-oceanic, part of the first all-female crew, and first flight attendant to become an airline pilot. In retirement, she authored two books to chronicle her aviation journey - Life Takes Wings and Life Takes Flight and founded the nonprofit, ROSE ...
Otto works in production for the Boeing Company in their assembly plants in California, and was recently featured by the Los Angeles Times. These days she works on the construction of C-17 cargo ...
Women eventually began to enter U.S. major commercial aviation in the 1970s and 1980s, with 1973 seeing the first female pilot at a major U.S. airline, American Airlines. American also promoted the first female captain of a major U.S. airline in 1986 and the following year had the first all-woman flight crew. [188]
The squadron was activated for a third time in September 1958 as Strategic Air Command (SAC)'s Boeing B-47 Stratojet fleet reached a peak of twenty-seven wings [6] In 1958, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet wings of SAC assumed an alert posture at their home bases, reducing the amount of time spent on alert at overseas bases.