Our Facilities. . .

Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, our main facility is home to a full range of operations. To ensure the highest standards of safety and excellence of artistry, we manufacture all of our track components, flying harnesses, machinery, and electronics onsite. Everything we use for our systems, from the track to the pulleys, has been designed by us specifically to meet the needs of theatrical flying.

In addition to our shop facility, we also have a separate 7940 sq. ft studio where we can completely mock up and rehearse your production. No matter what you need, no one is better equipped to move you rapidly from development to reality than Flying by Foy.  Enjoy these images of our shops, flight studios, and other facilities. The dreams begin with you, the magic begins with us!

We begin above, outside the facilities which house our main suite of offices along with our fabrication shop, harness shop, materials storage, and carpentry shop spaces.
 

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Inside, we have 10,000 square feet devoted to the fabrication of the equipment that we use on our many projects on stage, in film, concert halls, churches, and arenas.

A custom-fabricated truss readied for the "Gazelle" touring unit of The Lion King. The black finish is to better hide the mechanism from audience view, better supporting the stage magic.

Facilities in this building include ample storage of the components that we fabricate for use in our custom-designed flying rigs.

Using a metal lathe to fabricate one of our custom pieces of equipment.
 

Our harnesses are custom made in house to exacting standards specific to each jobs. Often a performer needs only to make a simple flight along a straight path. In other instance a performer may need to fly in a very controlled manner or rotating on various axes as they travel. Each requires a different type of harness design. And, performers must be free to move and to sing effortlessly as well. Climbing harness technology just doesn't suit the bill and is actually not designed to the exacting standards required for safety in use on stage.

Storage showing a small portion of our harness inventory.

Control system components waiting for installation and final testing.

Carpentry shop. While our flight equipment is fabricated from metals and advanced materials, there are at times needs for more traditional fabrication when dealing with integration into scenic elements, or even with the needs of packing and shipment.

From the outside, it's quite unassuming, but this, our newest edition, is our pride and joy as it houses the studios of our designers and engineers, as well as a generous flight studio where our we can develop our aereography™ on-site in partnership with a production's performers and directors working side by side with our flight directors, designers, and engineers. A surprising number of flight sequences from Broadway to Las Vegas, to Films were "workshopped" right in this building.

Let's take a peek inside.

As shows and equipment is readied in the foreground for shipping out, performers and riggers are working on a flight sequence in the flight studio beyond.

Working out a sequence for the revival of Martha Clarke's seminal dance work Garden of Earthly Delights (summer of 2008)

Broadway veteran, Ben Bowman, rehearses another sequence in preparation for the revival of Garden of Earthly Delights

One of our designers at work on a 3-D simulation at a CAD station in the design studio.

Testing and repairs in our Electronics Lab.

The work of Peter Foy had it's mark in many fields. His artistry was central in the development of the great ice shows of companies such as The Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice. This love of skating was a family affair as his daughter Theresa was an accomplished professional skater herself.

But always interested in the education and development of talented youth, Peter Foy was concerned about the less than nurturing methods used traditionally to train skaters. Foy thought that the industry could do better and in typical Foy fashion, he decided to roll up his sleeves and become part of the solution in forming Las Vegas' Athletic Arts Academy. Notice any familiar elements decorating the building architecture?

Inside the rink, whose dimensions are patterned exactly from the rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

A sampling of the many awards and honors earned by the skaters at the academy. Proof of concept!