I am looking for a reference to convert B-47 to RB-47H.[:)]
Any drawing or conversion set information will be welcome
Scale Aircraft Modeling did an article about 2 years ago.
If you can get your hands on a copy, they have a back issue section, it would be worth it.
Alwyn Lloyd, probably the world’s foremost authority on Boeing bombers, having been an engineer designing these things before turning aviation writer, has a new book out on the B-47. He also is responsible for the tried and true Detail and Scale book on the B-47, which is the least expensive reference on the subject. . As for the RB-47H, the major external difference, of course, if the nose. Unlike the RB-47E, which is almost indistinguishable from the pure bomber version, the H was another animal. I wish you luck.
Now, would somebody please give us a 1/48 scale model of my favorite airplane, said B-47. It wasn’t all that large, and all we have is this wholly inadequate, 35 year old AMT 1/72 scale kit marketed by Hasegawa for the past 25 years. While the elegant shape of the Stratojet (it was never, ever called that by its crews) is captured nicely in this old kit, it is very short on detail. Two thousand of these beauties were built, and it’s beyond me why nobody has seen fit to kit it again.
TOM
There’s going to be a 1/48 vacform B47 sometime this year, And if sales are good, A 1/48 B52, Best clear out the family so you can have one of each type, Will try and get you link when I log on again.
thank you folks. As soon as I finished the conversion , I will post my experience in here
I bought the Hase kit last year - in the original box.
I am tempted to start soon - oh yeah - no space!
Tom, like you, I was a kid brought up with B 47s in my backyard. What DID the crews call them??
I honestly don’t know. My father only referred to it as “the airplane” as if there were no others in the world. But who ever heard of a piece of military equipment that did not have an off-the-books nickname?
TOM
International Air Power Review, Vol6 has a very detailed article on the B-47 with pictures and small, but well detailed side views of all types including the RB-47H. I am currently using the data provided to build the XB-47D. This article has more than enough details for most of you interested inthe B-47.
Richard
This link is to the B 47 Association. http://www.b-47.com/navigation.html
There are loads of pictures of all the variants and a lot of good stories, too. But I couldn’t find any references to any aircraft nicknames. It’s kinda funny that the crews didn’t have any derisive or affectionate names for it.
http://www.sangereng.fsnet.co.uk/
There you can see a list of the parts breakdown ect, Sorry it’s taken so long[:)]
Subfixer is right about the B-47 Association site, and when I was doing some research, both on the airplane and on my father’s squadron and crew, I posted my questions and got lots of helpful answers back right away. Some nice folks over there who are more than happy to talk to you about the airplane. You wouldn’t believe what they endured during those 18 hour airborne nuclear alerts, just flying in a racetrack pattern, trying to keep awake (they took amphetamines to stay alert before it was discovered how dangerous this was) while a great big thermonuclear warhead was sitting just below them in the bay.
Remember that hilarious scene in “Dr. Strangelove” (still my all time favorite movie) where Slim Pickens was naming off the checklist of everything in the survival pack? Well, it wasn’t that far off, and my dad used to bring some of the more benign stuff home to us, such as the fishing kits where about a hundred and 80 pieces of line, lures, hooks, sinkers, you name it, were crammed into a box smaller than a Walkman. Of course, the hand axe and the folding shotgun he had to sit on in the survival kit we didn’t get to play with.
TOM