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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The rocket-assisted take-off of a Boeing B-47B, powered by GE J47 engines and Solid Rocket Thrusters; reportedly taken on 15th of April 1954 Nasa Image
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I always thought the B-47 was pretty cool, though being airborne 24/7/365 in ChromeDome (?) they did have a habit of crashing.
IIRC they carried this bad boy, of which they only recently dismantled the last one ten or so years ago. I was at Pantex and one of the tooling engineers had a 5-gal bucket of B53 parachute rigging parts under his desk. I might have claimed a few as souvenir/desk-jewelry.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/dismantling-final-b53-bomb
