Behold the XB-55, from the period of time between the B-17 and the 707 when Boeing had mostly forgotten that noses could have anything other than radial symmetry. But contrarotating propellers are always a jam, see also: the XF-12, one of the primary reasons I have a dieselpunk setting to write plane fiction in :P
This was truly the golden age of aviation, when you didn’t need blueprints or a wind tunnel model or anything. Just show up to the War Department with what amounts to “the cover image from a Popular Mechanics issue headlined THE BOMBER OF TOMORROW” and see what happens :P
(What happens is they don’t fund your project)