Aircraft first flights
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Order by the year of the first flight. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Order by the year of the first flight. You place all 47 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Famous aircraft make up this deck, from fighters and bombers to airliners and record breakers, with the maker or designer printed underneath. The goal is to order them by the year each one first flew. One plane is already on the line with its year visible. Choose a gap for each new card among the aircraft placed so far. A correct choice reveals the year of its first flight; a wrong one still moves it there but costs you one of three lives.
It covers powered flight from its earliest days through wartime fighters and bombers, the jet age, wide-body airliners and stealth designs. The war years are packed, with several famous warplanes taking off close together. A first flight often came well before a plane entered service, so one you associate with a later conflict may have flown earlier than you think. Makers repeat a lot, so the name underneath rarely settles a close call.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 47 cards you might be dealt, with 19 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.