Choose a runway, shape a route, and fly at the edge of the atmosphere.
NAV follows the flight plan from the Map. APPR captures the localizer and glideslope of the arrival runway and disconnects at 150 ft — the SR-71 had no autoland, so you flare and land by hand.
Choose a preset for your device; adaptive resolution can smooth frame pacing.
| Flight controls | |
|---|---|
| ↑ ↓ · W S | Pitch (nose down / up) |
| ← → · A D | Roll in the air · A D steer the nose wheel on the ground |
| Z X | Rudder, nose-wheel steering (any time) |
| Home End | Pitch trim |
| PgUp PgDn · + − | Throttle (last quarter = afterburner) |
| 9 · 0 | Max afterburner · idle |
| G | Landing gear |
| B / Space | Brakes · Shift+B parking brake |
| C | Drag chute (deploy below 200 kt) |
| K | Autopilot |
| ? · F1 | This help |
| Simulator | |
| V | Next view · Shift+V previous |
| M | Map |
| P | Pause |
| R | Restart |
| Y | Slew mode |
| H | HUD overlay |
| O | Sound |
The front panel is live: ADI with flight director and glideslope, HSI with bearing/DME to the active waypoint and localizer, KEAS/Mach, triple display, altimeter, VSI, g, AoA, clock, fuel, gear lights, both engines' RPM, EGT, nozzle and fuel flow, spike and bypass positions, CIT and annunciators.
Blackbird is an unofficial, non-commercial flight simulator provided as is, without warranty. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lockheed Martin or any government. Do not use it for real-world navigation or flight planning: charts, airports, runways and terrain are approximations. Third-party data stays under its owners’ licences, listed below.
Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS User Community. Higher-resolution regional orthophotos where available: IGN France (Licence Ouverte); Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung (CC BY 4.0); GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeoRP (dl-de/by-2.0); Digitaal Vlaanderen; ČÚZK Czechia (CC BY 4.0); Provincia autonoma di Bolzano; NSW Spatial Services (CC BY 4.0).
Elevation: Terrain Tiles on AWS, from Mapzen and the public datasets listed at registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles (SRTM, NED, GMTED and others). Vector map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), served as OpenMapTiles by OpenFreeMap. Buildings: Overture Maps Foundation, OpenStreetMap contributors, Google Open Buildings and Microsoft building footprints (CC BY 4.0 / ODbL). Airports and runways: OurAirports (public domain). Aeronautical charts: FAA.
Rendered with three.js, mapped with Leaflet, vector tiles decoded with Mapbox’s vector-tile and Pbf libraries, polygons triangulated with earcut, PMTiles by Protomaps. Each is used under its own open-source licence.