Airspan (FlightQ)

About Airspan (FlightQ)

Airspan is FlightQ's size-estimation game. A blue reference is shown at a known scale: a football pitch, a park, a landmark, a car, the Space Shuttle Discovery or another plane. Beside it sits an orange aircraft or airport, and you pinch or drag its handle to resize it until the proportion looks right. Aircraft are compared by overall length; airports by the mapped area of their grounds.

When you press Guess, the orange shape smoothly resizes to its true size next to a dashed outline of your guess, and you score up to 100 points for the round. Facts and dimensions, such as an aircraft's wingspan, open after each reveal. A streak counts guesses within 90 percent of the true proportion.

Aircraft and Airports each have their own five-round daily challenge, the same comparisons for everyone, refreshing at midnight Eastern. The collection covers 42 aircraft configurations, modern, historical and in development, and 500 major airports in 115 countries and territories. An archive holds past days.

How to play Airspan (FlightQ)

1. Open Airspan on flightq.app and choose Aircraft or Airports.
2. Read the reference object's size, shown under it.
3. Resize the orange aircraft or airport by pinching, dragging its handle or using the mouse wheel.
4. Drag the shapes to overlap them if that helps, then press Guess.
5. See the real scale and your score, then play all five rounds for a total out of 500.

Tips

• Overlap the shapes before guessing: comparing edges is easier than comparing side by side.
• Remember aircraft are compared by length, not wingspan.
• Airport areas are much larger than you expect next to parks: lean big.
• Open Facts and dimensions after each round to calibrate for the next.

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