Lay on the grass surrounding the Chanute-Wright Brothers Memorial and one can pretend to be overlooking the sand dunes where the Wright Brothers took their first flight. The sculpture measures 23 feet from wingtip to wingtip and 20 feet from nose to tail. It rotates with the wind as do the metal people - and dog - sculptures surrounding it. Highlights of the relationship between Octave Chanute, a railroad engineer who worked in the Chanute area before it was Chanute, and Orville and Wilbur Wright are shown on the mountings around the sculpture.

 

The sculpture is outside and is accessible 24 hours a day.