Boeing B-47 Stratojet's First Flight

The B-47 was the first plastic airplane model that I can remember building. The JATO bottles made it a unique plane at the time.

That's not a plane. It's an aerial bonfire <cough>.

Always preferred the B-52 ever since I watched them scramble off the runway at Limestone AFB in Limestone, Maine back in the late 50's. Like a flock of giant birds they would come off the base which was on a hilltop and they would swoop down into the valley and climb up like the big ass birds they were, up over my grandmother's house in Hamlin, Maine. They were a wondrous sight to behold.

Always get a laugh out of George C. Scott in Dr. Strangelove describing how they fly and how they can't be stopped from their mission. A real classic movie and considering the mental status of the world today and one worth watching again and digesting how "everything old is new again".