August 20, 2012 – Ben Berry
By 1999, the Nike Innovation Kitchen was in full tilt mode being…well…innovated. Looking at the Air Flightposite it was easy to see that the ideas on what would make a good basketball sneaker has evolved so much in such a short period of time.
Inspired by concept cars and 17th-century British figure drawings, one of the goals of the Flightposite was to achieve bio-mechanics streamlining. You could see the Foamposite One inspiration throughout this sneaker in the tooling with updated features like a zipper replacing conventional shoe laces. The space between the sneaker and wearer became that much smaller. The Air Flightposite is a huge jump in advancement for the Flight line.
