DESCRIPTION: 20-foot, 5,000-pound zinc-coated steel sculpture, with external lighting
According to the artist, Flight was created to “symbolize the continuous movement from Earth to Space, to suggest, in abstract terms, man’s indomitable delving into the unknown.”
The sculpture was dedicated on November 19, 1978 by the Bicentennial Commission for Arts in Public Places, and it was was renovated in 2002 with external lighting.