Chance-Vought was fairly conservative with the wing loading, and
Boeing was not. Much more lift per square foot, thus less structure.
The B-60 (I think that was the designation for the all-jet B-36
derivative) was a real dog. Way too big, wing way too fat, and so
forth since it was not really a new design. Chance-Vought was on the
way to disintegration by then and was unable to do a new design, they
had lost most of their engineering staff.
A B-52 is MUCH smaller -- the rather bent one hanging in the air in
the Dayton Museum looks like a toy compared to the B-36.
Peter
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