The Hangar
Everything that helps you play: the aircraft, airports and airlines behind the puzzles, and short guides to how aviation works. Stuck on today’s puzzle, or just curious? Start here.
Look it up
- Which jet flies furthest?Look up any of 111 airliners: seats, range, size and age, with outlines drawn to scale. Sort by range and you’ll find the answer in a tap.Stuck on Aircraft of the day or Higher or lower? This is where the clues come from.Browse 111 aircraft
- See any airport from above1,084 airports with their runways drawn from real coordinates. Spot the shapes: parallel runways, crosswind strips, and the airports high in the mountains.The best practice for Runway of the day: learn the layouts of the big hubs.Find an airport
- Who flies as Speedbird?Codes, radio callsigns and founding years for 484 airlines, flying and long gone, and what happened to them.Handy for the Aviation quiz.Look up an airline
- A350 or 787?Two airliners side by side, drawn to the same scale: 287 match-ups, from the classic rivals to forgotten pairs.Settle the argument with real numbers.Compare two aircraft
- Biggest, longest, highestThe record holders and the runners-up: longest range, most seats, longest runway, highest airport, oldest airline still flying.Great for a Higher or lower warm-up.See the records
Guides How aviation works, a few minutes each.
- Types of airlinerNarrow, wide, regional and turboprop, and how to read a name like 787-9.6 min read
- What happens on a flightFrom pushback to the gate: every phase, and who does what.5 min read
- How an airport worksRunways, taxiways, aprons and terminals, and why hubs exist.6 min read
- How airlines set pricesWhy the seat next to you cost a different amount.6 min read