Machines
Aircraft first flights
Order by the year of the first flight. You get one card and a line of cards already in place — slot it where it belongs. Three wrong guesses and the run is over.
47
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
Cards only
Card reveal
How Aircraft first flights is played
Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.
This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.
What's in the deck
28 of the 47 cards you could be dealt, plus 19 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- Wright Flyer Wright brothers
- Blériot XI Louis Blériot
- Fokker Dr.I Fokker
- Spirit of St. Louis Ryan Airlines
- Junkers Ju 52 Junkers
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Boeing
- Supermarine Spitfire Supermarine
- Piper J-3 Cub Piper Aircraft
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero Mitsubishi
- Avro Lancaster Avro
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress Boeing
- Bell X-1 Bell Aircraft
- de Havilland Comet de Havilland
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Boeing
- Lockheed U-2 Lockheed Skunk Works
- Boeing 727 Boeing
- Learjet 23 Lear Jet Corporation
- Boeing 737 Boeing
- Boeing 747 Boeing
- Concorde Aérospatiale & BAC
- Airbus A300 Airbus
- F-16 Fighting Falcon General Dynamics
- F-117 Nighthawk Lockheed
- Airbus A320 Airbus
- B-2 Spirit Northrop
- Boeing 777 Boeing
- Airbus A380 Airbus
- Boeing 787 Dreamliner Boeing