Lesueur
Now, Colonel, I attended your exhibition here the other day, and I wondered how you actually were able to paint from the cockpit of an aircraft high up in the air.
Balchen
You can--there are many ways to compose a painting and to get your impressions home with you, you can set it down on a larger sheet of paper than you can handle in a cockpit. The space is confined there, and with a small watercolor box and small pad you can catch the colors and put them on the paper. You can also make a thumbnail sketch, an outline, and write down there in a shorthand you develop what you see, and then take it home, and also train your memory to remember these beautiful colors you have up there.