OK, did some more reasearch, sratch the above.


According to the FAI site, Paul Bikle flew a 1-23E and according to the caption of the painting it was in the afternoon.

As he was going West with the spoilers out, the Moon is all wrong, and shouldn't even be in the picture.

But Bickle may have taken a picture of the Moon while headed West and shown it to the artist who put it in forgetting Bickle was looking South when he shot it.

Do I get a Cigar?

FF