I was friends with a guy, now deceased who flew B-36s alone with just about everything else from 1944-1968.
After he retired, he worked as an instructor at Ft. Rucker. They asked if he was qualified for twin engines, he replied that he was qualified for 10.
He said that in the early days, only 3 bases, one of them Eglin could handle the B-36 because it took a very long runway to take off.
Four burning and six turning, eh?
A friend of my dad flew the “peacemaker”. When he retired from the AF he bought a beech bonanza and promptly came in hot at a local private grass strip, and went through the fence at the far end. Nobody was hurt. After flying considerably hotter aircraft for years, he just couldn’t get used to flying that slow until that incident.
Was that CWO4 Novasol?IIRC.
I saw a B-36 fly low over Farmington NM back in 1953 or 1954. I distinctly remember the props being on the back side of the engines. I was seven or eight years old.
Chuck Yeager is qualified for more planes at one time than any other pilot, IIRC.