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the back of the wing and turning so slowly set up a resonance with the 
air-flow over the wing resulting in a really strange, very loud, very low 
frequency beat that could not be mistaken and essentially gave away the fact 
that a B-36 was flying in the vicinity.

Also, the B-36 could fly so high that at the time no other airplane could reach 
it. Several of the "featherweight" versions could fly above 50,000 feet. The 
TA-152 would have been the only piston-powered airplane that could have 
reached it.

When the pilots kicked the 4 jet engines into operation, top speed would 
easily exceed 400 mph, but they used up fuel very rapidly, so they were 
normally kept shut down except at take-off or if badly needed.

Lastly, the 4360s were never designed to operate as pushers. This resulted 
in constant problems with carburetor icing, which resulted in flooding, which 
resulted in engine fires due to unburnt fuel build-up in the exhaust system.

Ken W7EKB