Flying

The young Claiborne Pell had a bit of an artist's eye. He liked to draw boats, a portend perhaps of his ocean- and sea-related legislation -- and also airplanes. Here's a drawing of a monoplane, when Pell was about 12, which would have been mot too long after the excitement of Lindbergh's transatlantic crossing in an aircraft that looked something like this...
Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Library.