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27 Boeing WB-47E Stratojet

            The WB-47E was the designation assigned to converted B-47Es used for weather reconnaissance with the Air Weather Service, initially with the Military Air Transport Service (MATS), but later part of the Military Airlift Command (MAC). They had nose-mounted cameras that recorded cloud formations, and they carried air-sampling and data-recording equipment inside a sensor pod in the bomb bay in place of nuclear weapons. The defensive fire control system and the tail guns were removed. The weather service received the first of 34 WB-47Es on 20 March 1963. These aircraft were modified by Lockheed-Marietta in Georgia. These aircraft replaced the WB-50D Superfortresses that had suffered several fatal crashes between 1956 and 1960.

In this image, a WB-47E (B-47E-60-BW, Serial Number: 51-2417) of the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the 9th Weather Reconnaissance Group heads out into a storm off the California coast. These aircraft were operated by the 53d, 55th, and 57th Weather Reconnaissance Squadrons stationed at Hunter AFB in Georgia and Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, McClellan AFB in California, and Hickam AFB, Hawaii, respectively. Aircraft from the 57th WRS flew weather reconnaissance for Operation Arc Light, operating from Clark AFB in the Philippines. The WB-47Es began to be replaced by WC-130 and WC-135 aircraft in 1965, but the total phaseout took another three years. The last WB-47E was the last operational B-47 in the Air Force inventory and was delivered to Davis-Monthan AFB on 31 October 1969.

Taken on: July 10, 2023

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