An amazing time, pax, all mainly achieved by engineers with slide rules. Only the prototype B-36 had the huge single main wheels, operational ones had 4 wheel bogies. The type was actually quite successful in service and lived up to its name 'Peacemaker' or 'The Big Stick' and was the mainstay of SAC until the B-47 came along.
However they did trial a B-36 with 'caterpillar' landing gear. Unsurprisingly, it was not a success!
Last edited by Captain Dart; 26th Jan 2017 at 10:01.