By Timothy Karpin & James Maroncelli 5/10/2019 • Aviation History When an F-86 Sabre Dog collided with a B-47 Stratojet during a 1958 training exercise, the bomber pilot was forced to ditch his payload—a 1.69-megaton nuclear weapon. Seven and a half hours into their training mission, Major Howard Richardson and his Boeing B-47B Stratojet flight crew finally began to relax after an evening of deploying electronic countermeasures and chaff to evade prowling North American F-86 fighters.
