STEM
FlightForge
Design, build, and fly aircraft in a physics sandbox — master aerodynamics from paper planes to jet engines through the four forces of flight, wind tunnel experiments, and aviation engineering challenges.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Skye
#29B6F6 FlightForge is an aviation academy where you design, build, and fly your own aircraft! Learn the real science of flight -- lift, drag, thrust, and weight -- by building planes in a physics sandbox, testing them in a wind tunnel, and flying them through challenges. Start with paper planes and work your way up to jets!
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in FlightForge is one idea in how things fly: lift, drag, thrust, turning, and the tail that keeps a plane steady, plus pitch, the stall, banking, balance and gliding. Skye, the mentor, frames each one with paper planes, drones and model rockets.
Wing
Lift generation — airfoil + camber + Bernoulli AND Newton both-right complementary
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Drag
Resistance — drag isn't bad, drag is information; shape-fights-air conversation
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Thrust
Propulsion — every engine just throws air the wrong way (propeller/jet/rocket same trick different scale)
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Yaw
Vertical-axis control — the rudder is the POLISH on the turn not the steering
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Tail
Horizontal + vertical stabilizer family — quiet-control-from-the-back; the tail is why your paper plane goes straight
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Attitude
Aircraft pitch attitude — the nose points where the elevator aims it; climbing is aim plus enough wing to hold it
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Bite
Angle of attack and the stall — a wing grips the air at an angle; steeper grips harder until, past the critical angle, the grip lets go all at once
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Heel
Banking to turn — a plane turns by leaning, not pushing sideways; tilt the wings and lift itself pulls you around the corner
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Keel
Center of gravity and balance — weight pulls down, but WHERE the weight sits decides level flight versus a tumble
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Sail
Gliding — no engine, so you trade height for distance; a smoother shape buys more distance per bit of altitude
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What's inside
Aircraft Designer
Choose a fuselage, wings, engine, and tail, then put them together. Each part has real physics properties that affect how your plane flies. Bigger wings give mo
Wind Tunnel
Test your aircraft design in the wind tunnel before flying it. See how air flows over your wings and where drag is slowing you down. Adjust your design based on
Flight Simulator
Take your aircraft to the sky! Tilt your phone to steer and complete challenges like "Fly through the canyon" or "Reach the highest altitude." Your plane handle
Engineering Challenges
Solve specific design problems like "Build a plane that can carry the heaviest cargo" or "Design the most fuel-efficient glider."
Mentored by Skye — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How FlightForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
FlightForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
FlightForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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