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The Little Plane That Could Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About The Little Plane That Could

Board your biplane for some chivalrous dogfights in the sky.
Take part in aerial battles with up to 60 planes and show them how is ace!
May the best pilot win. And in case you are not the best pilot: don't despair, we have flight school lined up for you as well!

This super smooth biplane simulator comes to you from the author of the hit game 'The Little Crane That Could.'

`The Little Plane That Could' comes with eight challenging missions and supports Game Center for keeping track of your performance and achievements.

The fluid high resolution visuals are as pleasing to the eyes as the fully 3D audio is to the ears.
The game features amazing A.I. pilots that use the same flight controls as the player with zero cheating.
Sophisticated aerodynamics models are used for all planes.
Bullets fly their actual ballistics path without guidance, fudging, or any cheating: a hit is a real hit.

Dogfight in 3... 2... 1.... Go!

Missions:
Quick Battle.
Taxi and Take-off.
Approach and Landing.
Enemy Reconnaissance.
Baptism of Fire.
Naval Blockade.
Escort.
Flight Leader.

Controls:
Swipe up/down for elevator control.
Swipe left/right for aileron control.
Swipe throttle for power setting.
Swipe left/right brakes for wheel braking.
Pinch for camera zoom.
Tap prv/nxt for selecting camera target.

`The Little Plane That Could' was conceived, designed and implemented by Abraham Stolk. The 3D biplane model was designed by Kenneth Fejer. Play Testing by Jeff Segal.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.16

Last updated on Mar 18, 2018

Old Versions

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Catch assertion failures.

Version History

1.16

Mar 18, 2018

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Catch assertion failures.

1.15

Mar 14, 2018

- Easier to put nose down with elevator.
- Better ground following, less erratic pitching by AI pilots.
- Correct crash avoidance when in inverted flight.

1.14

Mar 9, 2018

- Fix crash in "Flight Leader" level.
- Fix navigation by AI pilot.

1.13

Mar 6, 2018

- Fixed FPS counter.
- Fixed navigation by AI pilots.
- Optimized instanced drawing with multi-buffered VBOs.

1.12

Mar 5, 2018

- Fixed the simulation (previous version doubled all physics forces.)
- Break stalemates during dogfights with evasive action.
- Better font for menu.
- Shout out to Joelmm for reporting bugs.

1.11

Mar 3, 2018

- Added a sensitivity slider in the iOS settings app.

- Fixed bug where app stops reacting to touches.

1.10

Feb 26, 2018

Support 120Hz render+sim.
Improved AI Pilots.

1.06

Oct 26, 2016

Fixed a render bug that popped up on the newly introduced devices.
My thanks to Test Pilot Jeff Segal.

1.04

Feb 27, 2015

→ Improved controls: stick now has a dead zone.
→ Fixed detection of mission-win in level `flight leader.'
→ Fixed bug where leader board stats are not properly updated.

1.0

Dec 18, 2014

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