I love to look back at the days of the Gee-Bee racers and later - in Europe - the Schneider Trophy seaplanes. I stood next to the Supermarine S.6B in a huge hall at the London Science museum many years ago and was able to run my paws over one of its floats
Here's the very first aviation painting I ever did, so not my best work. It shows a precursor to the S.6 - the Supermarine S.4