This sculpture, by Dr. Mike Pringle, celebrates Swindon's engineering background and in particular the part Swindon played in the war making aircraft.  It was unveiled in August 2018 and at 5.5 metres tall it is the size of a Spitfire wing and is created for the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force.  Surrounding it is seating and a children's play park which has a flying theme too.  Looking down, some of the paving follows the theme.

It is located in the North Swindon shopping centre - The Orbital.  We took some photographs on 10th August 2018 just before it was 'unveiled' and the planting completed - so some of our photographs have wire fencing around it.

A short distance away from the sculpture are some information boards, and our photographs of these are after the sculpture photographs.  Swindon has an excellent engineering heritage and it is good to see something to reflect this.