FLYOVER
Dedicated July 4, 1996
Artist David Black's sculpture Flyover (1996) was inspired by Daytonians Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful powered flight on December 17, 1903. It also celebrates Dayton's impressive history of innovation.
Flyover's primary image is a repeated, double-winged shape that rises and falls along an open, linear pathway. It suggests the Wright Brothers' biplane and its tentative, swooping motion. The 120 feet betweeen the first and last sets of wing struts represents the length of that first flight. The sculpture's reflective metal surfaces and streamlined forms also call to mind more modern aircraft, descendants of the Wright Flyer. The grasses at its base are reminiscent of the Huffman Prairie, east of Dayton, where many flights were conducted. The bench facing Flyover replicates a wing support used in the Wright brothers first flight.
Constructed of stainless steel, aluminum, and ceramic tile • 150 feet long, 43 feet high, 24 feet widepost
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