# Giant man-with-wings statue?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519 "2013-12-17T01:51:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/1 "2013-12-17T01:51:39Z")

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On an episode of Top Gear, the guys are racing a train, motorcycle and car along the A1 road. Along the way, on a hill, there appears to be a rather large statue of a man with wings.  
[http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-5](http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/train-race-part-5)  
(time index 2:52)  
What is it?

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**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/2 "2013-12-17T02:00:00Z")

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I wasn’t going to watch a video, so googled “highway a1 angel statue” and got info on a contemporary angel statue called [Angel of the North (wiki page)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_North) that overlooks the A1. That it?

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/3 "2013-12-17T02:09:53Z")

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I don’t know the answer, but the scene where an exhausted, [soot-covered Jeremy](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/JFFT.jpg) collapses in the pub as he sucks down a pint is one of my favorite Top Gear moments ever.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/4 "2013-12-17T04:02:40Z")

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> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> I wasn’t going to watch a video, so googled “highway a1 angel statue” and got info on a contemporary angel statue called [Angel of the North (wiki page)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_North) that overlooks the A1. That it?

Yup…thats it:D

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/5 "2013-12-17T08:12:52Z")

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It’s a reasonably safe bet that any piece of metal human-form public art you see in Britain is something to do with Antony Gormley. Metal men are very much his thing.

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**Author:** ![Stealth\_Bragg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Stealth\_Bragg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Bragg)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-man-with-wings-statue/676519/6 "2013-12-17T13:56:17Z")

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> [@blondebear](#):
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> I don’t know the answer, but the scene where an exhausted, [soot-covered Jeremy](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/-dc-/JFFT.jpg) collapses in the pub as he sucks down a pint is one of my favorite Top Gear moments ever.

Half-pint, call hisself a real man 😉