Wow. You know IF they have used engines like those on the B-36 it may have worked.
You know when you have to add eight jet engines to your propeller driven plane to get it to fly as it should, you have F'ed up. Your team has F'ed up so bad that you should have been striped of your clothes, covered in dung and force marched from DC to LA, flogging yourselves saying "We are not worthy to be aircraft engineers" the entire way.
Oh I can feel Manfred's key board overheating allready for that one.