20 Years Of Nike Basketball Design: Air Flightposite (1999)
August 1st, 2012 by Aaron Hope | 9 comments
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After a fairly thorough excavation of the legendary 1995-96 season and its immediate followups, Nike Basketball continues its journey through the past two decades of excellence with the spiritual successor to yesterday’s entrant. ’97′s Air Foamposite One set the bar with a then-record $170 MSRP and a design that remains ‘futuristic’ to this day, and two years later, Foamposite lead designer Eric Avar leveraged the technology to “create a seamless extension of your body.” The Nike Air Flightposite was born two years later with a sleeker design inspired by classical anatomy drawings and a unique zipper enclosure that made it one of the smoothest basketball shoes ever created. Click through to see more photos, sketches and words from the designer (conspicuous by a complete absence of Kevin Garnett references) and stick with Sneaker News for tomorrow’s look back over 20 years of Nike Basketball brilliance.
Does anyone know what these things run for now...i have a pair in pretty good condition being from 1999 sz 16 im sure those are hard to find anybody help me with a price for maybe trying to get rid of them?? thanks!
i would love a pair of eggplants in my collection, better shoe than foams imo
...these were supposed to be the future but society wasn't quite ready.
these were a dope shoe..never copped cause i always wanted another shoe when these dropped and later retro'd!
i've been looking for the commercial of this shoe with kevin garnett still with nike. any links guys?
With all the foamposites they've been releasing, can we PLEASE get a flightposite?!?! I'm sure it would be a welcomed change.
@SRuiz They did them in 2008 and they didnt really fly off the shelves then
@TokyoOctopus The Cactus foamposites dropped in 2007, didn't really fly off the shelf then, but times have changed now. Anything foam will sellout...