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.
And a top contender for ugliest aircraft ever was the little F-85 Goblin parasite fighter designed to "escort" the B36...