That photo is definitely a
fake - it's been photoshopped.
The original can be found on p.204 of Bowers'
'Fortress In The Sky' and shows the aircraft ( Pratt and Whitney's flying test-bed 299Z ) flying just on the nose-mounted XT-34 turbo-prop with the four standard Wright Cyclone's feathered. The photo is absolutely identical, right down to the marks on the ground.
The camera never lies ? With photoshop, it can.....
