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Hello everyone got a question on a relay chain here. SWMBO has a friend in Oklahoma that was digging up info from the Tulsa Air & Space Museum, and found this photo and caption of a Boeing B-47. The planes serial is 42100 in U.S.Navy markings. With a big McDonell-Douglas corporate logo, pound-sign #️⃣, & Oklahoma university football helmet ? 

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A closer cleaner view shows us this.

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which enlarged gets this ? 

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Anyone have any info or general knowledge of the aircraft history. Possibly why its got the strange nose art ? Also why it was seconded to the Navy and McD.-Douglas ? Any info is appreciated as always ? 

 

Dennis

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The following from the B-47 Stratojet Association elaborates on the info above.  The airframes being bailed to McAir explains their logo on the nose.

 

"Two EB-47Es (s/n 24100 and 24120) were loaned to the US Navy for electronic countermeasures (ECM). Modified and redesignated as EB-47Es, they were operated and maintained by McDonnell Douglas Tulsa, OK. Each aircraft had it's long-range external wing tanks replaced with electronic countermeasures equipment, multiple antennaes were added and chaff dispensers were installed. Each remained operational with the Navy long after the last USAF B-47s were retired from service. The final operational flight of a B-47 occurred on 20 December, 1977, when after accumulating more than 10,000 hours on it's airframe, 24100 was flown to Pease AFB, NH, where it was demilitarized and put on display."

 

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Before hashtags became a thing, the pound sign almost universally represented the word "number" - if you look closely the nose art is actually "# 1" (the 1 character is harder to read since it's a san serif character, thus a simple vertical rectangle).

 

This, the Oklahoma University football helmet, and the 74-75 are all part of the same marking commemorating the Oklahoma Sooners' consecutive finishes as the #1 team in college football for the 1974 and 1975 seasons.  Presumably just a bit of "hometown" pride for the aforementioned McAir team in Tulsa.

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