Crossing the Atlantic

Arrived Manchester airport 7 o clock this morning after a night on Dreamliner watching three films: Bucket List, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Sideways.
 
The first thing we see on transition to the railway station for the journey back to Scotland is this sculpture by Elizabeth Frink to commemorate Sir John Alcock's crossing of the Atlantic in 1919 with his RAF colleague Arthur Brown.
 
 
It took the two of them 16 hours to make the perilous journey from Ireland to Newfoundland.
 
Nearly 300 of us did it last night on Dreamliner in less than eight hours.
 
Apparently when this sculpture was first installed in 1964 it caused a lot of controversy with one relative describing the winged figure as “sordid, vulgar and obscene.”
 
 
Over the years it has been moved around the airport and now stands discreetly in a corridor linking the airport terminal with the railway station.
 
   
Actually I like it and recognised the style immediately as the work of Elizabeth Frink.