Fastest Jet Bomber Tanked Up In Air -- Here's the first released picture of the world's fastest bombers, a six-jet, 600-mile an-hour Boeing B-47 stratojet bomber, (bottom) being refueled from a double-deck Boeing KC-97A tanker plane. In this method of refueling, now a standard U.S. Air Force practice, fuel boom form under tail of tanker plane is connected with coupling in nose of bomber and the fuel is pumped in at high speed. June 18, 1951. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).