The B-36 was the next bomber in the works after the B-29. First flight in 1946. It dwarfed the B-29.
When I was tiny kid in Garland Tx the B36’s would circle around for landing over at the Convair plant. They seemed to just hang there in the sky, and were they loud!
BTW the B36 was being designed in the event England fell and we had to bomb from Nova Scotia.
We have an elderly man in our church who was a crew chief on a B-36 way back when. He still flies, has a commercial license, although he lost he medical a while back. I saw him recently and he said he had regained his medical and was flying a Cessna 195 that had been outfitted for doing aerial photos. I am an avid freelance shooter and he offered to take me along on one of their assignments. I told him anytime!
I’ve seen the 195 from across the apron and it’s a gorgeous flying machine.
Known as "The Cigar."