Scale: 1/100
Winspan: 14.375"
Length: 13" 
Code: MCSS09W007

A major innovation in post-World War II combat jet design, it helped lead to the development of modern jet airliners. The B-47 never saw major combat use. It served the United States Air Force from 1951 through 1969 and was a mainstay of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the 1950s and early 1960s.

The designations B-47C and B-47D were applied to special variants that never went into production (described later), and so the next production version of the B-47 was the definitive B-47E.

The first B-47E flew on 30 January 1953. Four "blocks" or "phases" of the B-47E were built, each incorporating refinements on the previous block, and also sometimes featuring production changes within a block. Older blocks were generally brought up to the specifications of later blocks as they were introduced.

Early production "B-47E-Is" also known featured J47-GE-25 turbojets with 5,970 lbf (27 kN) thrust, but they were quickly changed to J47-GE-25A engines, which featured a significant improvement in the form of water-methanol injection. This was a scheme in which a water-methanol mix was dumped into the engines at takeoff, increasing mass flow and so temporarily kicking the thrust up to 7,200 lbf (32 kN). Methanol was apparently added to the water as an anti-freezing agent. The engines left a trail of black smoke behind them when water-methanol injection was on.