Airborne Game

The radar has four rings. You drag one, the planes slide around, and if three of the same kind line up they come in to land. That line can run around the ring or straight out from the tower. Four in a row is louder. A jet clears the whole ring, a radar shot takes the spoke, and five of a kind brings every plane of that type down at once. Thirty missions, and they do not get kinder. Coastal Strip first, then Mountain Base, then Metro Hub. Each one wants a set number of landings, sometimes two kinds of plane and sometimes three, and the turns are never quite enough. Props, jets, seaplanes, biplanes, cargo planes, gliders. Chain a few landings and the score starts to climb. Finish with something left in the tank and you pick up wings, three if the approach was tidy. Medals are there for the showy landings. There is a board of pilots too, your best score sitting in with the rest, and all of…