it from the Flight mural on the upper section of the wall. The rotunda's ceiling steps upward from the perimeter of the room to the skylight at the center. On the second story, surrounding the rotunda, were various offices for the terminal's staff, including radio technicians, communications workers, and meteorologists. In addition, there were turnstiles on the second and third stories for members of the public who wanted to observe the Clippers. The main building's control tower contained radio equipment for monitoring seaplane landings and takeoffs in Bowery Bay. Mural Inside the rotunda hangs Flight, a mural measuring tall and long. Completed by James Brooks in 1942, Flight depicts the history of man's involvement with flight. It was the largest mural created as part of the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA). The mural is roughly divided into two sections. The first section depicts early history of aviation, including prehistoric humans' inability to fly; the Greek myth of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and got burned; and the flight-related inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. The second section depicts the modern history of aviation, starting with the Wright brothers' test flights and ending with modern transatlantic flights. The mural hangs on the upper section of the wall, just below the ceiling. Flight was completely painted over in 1952. It is unknown why this was done; The Wall Street Journal said it may have been due to anti-communist sentiment, but LaGuardia operations chief Anthony Cycovek said the rotunda had begun to look dingy when the mural was painted over. The mural was only rediscovered in 1973, after Cycovek mentioned it to a Port of New York Authority executive who had heard of the National Fine Arts Inventory Project, a program dedicated to finding lost works of government-commissioned art. In the late 1970s, Geoffrey Arend, an aviation historian and author of Great Airports: LaGuardia, mounted a campaign to restore the mural to its original splendor. The mural was rededicated on September 18, 1980. Grace Glueck of The New York Times described it as "the most egregious case of mural censorship" of a WPA mural in New York City. By 2022, Flight had been restored again as part of the LaGuardia redevelopment. Seaplane hangar When LaGuardia Airport was built in the 1930s, two seaplane hangars adjacent to the main building were planned. Initially, only one hangar was built. The hangar had