Gate Runner
Clipped a gate
Pick your aircraft
Rings are 138 m across. Your wingspan is the hitbox.
Desktop: ↓ pull back to climb, ↑ push forward to dive, ←/→ turn · A/D yaw · S/F throttle down/up · space firewalls it. Phone: stick bottom-left (pull down to climb), throttle slider bottom-right.
The numbers are doing the flying
Every aircraft in Gate Runner handles according to its own entry on this site. Cruise speed sets how fast the course comes at you. Maximum takeoff weight sets how quickly the aircraft answers the controls: a Cessna responds instantly, an A320 at less than half that rate, an An‑225 at under a third. The gates are then placed within whatever that particular aircraft can actually reach between them, so a heavy jet gets a course it can fly rather than one it is physically unable to make.
The wingspan is the part people notice. The gate rings are a fixed 138 metres across, sized so that every aircraft on this site can get through one, and your hitbox is your real span. A Cessna 172 has 11 metres of wing and around 64 metres of clearance either side. A Hughes H-4 Hercules has 97.5 metres of wing and about 20 metres. Same gate, entirely different problem.
Every aircraft you can fly
All 58 are playable, listed smallest wingspan first with the clearance each one gets through a 138 metre gate. Follow any link for its full specifications.
- Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II 10.7 m span · 63.6 m clearance · forgiving
- Piper PA-28 Archer 10.8 m span · 63.6 m clearance · forgiving
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 11.0 m span · 63.5 m clearance · forgiving
- Diamond DA40 11.6 m span · 63.2 m clearance · forgiving
- Cirrus Vision Jet 11.8 m span · 63.1 m clearance · forgiving
- Honda HA-420 HondaJet 12.1 m span · 62.9 m clearance · forgiving
- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk 13.2 m span · 62.4 m clearance · forgiving
- Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound 13.5 m span · 62.3 m clearance · supersonic
- Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor 13.6 m span · 62.2 m clearance · supersonic
- Sukhoi Su-57 Felon 14.1 m span · 62.0 m clearance · supersonic
- Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird 16.9 m span · 60.5 m clearance · supersonic
- Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II 17.5 m span · 60.2 m clearance · forgiving
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat 19.6 m span · 59.2 m clearance · supersonic
- Concorde 25.6 m span · 56.2 m clearance · supersonic
- ATR 72 27.1 m span · 55.5 m clearance · forgiving
- De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 28.4 m span · 54.8 m clearance · forgiving
- Tupolev Tu-144 28.8 m span · 54.6 m clearance · supersonic
- North American XB-70 Valkyrie 32.0 m span · 53.0 m clearance · supersonic
- Boeing 727 32.9 m span · 52.5 m clearance · forgiving
- Airbus A220 35.1 m span · 51.5 m clearance · tricky
- Embraer E-Jet E2 35.1 m span · 51.5 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus A320 family 35.8 m span · 51.1 m clearance · tricky
- COMAC C919 35.8 m span · 51.1 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 737 35.9 m span · 51.0 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 757 38.0 m span · 50.0 m clearance · tricky
- Rockwell B-1B Lancer 41.8 m span · 48.1 m clearance · tricky
- Ilyushin Il-62 43.2 m span · 47.4 m clearance · tricky
- Vickers VC10 44.5 m span · 46.7 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus A300 44.8 m span · 46.6 m clearance · tricky
- Douglas DC-8 45.2 m span · 46.4 m clearance · tricky
- Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 47.3 m span · 45.3 m clearance · tricky
- Ilyushin Il-86 48.1 m span · 45.0 m clearance · tricky
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10 50.4 m span · 43.8 m clearance · tricky
- Ilyushin Il-76 50.5 m span · 43.8 m clearance · tricky
- Tupolev Tu-114 51.1 m span · 43.5 m clearance · tricky
- McDonnell Douglas MD-11 51.7 m span · 43.2 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 51.8 m span · 43.1 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 767 51.9 m span · 43.0 m clearance · tricky
- Northrop B-2 Spirit 52.4 m span · 42.8 m clearance · tricky
- Tupolev Tu-160 55.7 m span · 41.1 m clearance · supersonic
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress 56.4 m span · 40.8 m clearance · tricky
- Ilyushin Il-96 60.1 m span · 38.9 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 787 Dreamliner 60.1 m span · 38.9 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus Beluga 60.3 m span · 38.9 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus A340 63.5 m span · 37.3 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus A330 64.0 m span · 37.0 m clearance · tricky
- Antonov An-22 Antei 64.4 m span · 36.8 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 747 Dreamlifter 64.4 m span · 36.8 m clearance · tricky
- Airbus A350 64.8 m span · 36.6 m clearance · tricky
- Boeing 777 64.8 m span · 36.6 m clearance · tricky
- Lockheed C-5 Galaxy 67.9 m span · 35.1 m clearance · hard
- Boeing 747 68.4 m span · 34.8 m clearance · hard
- Bristol Brabazon 70.1 m span · 34.0 m clearance · hard
- Boeing 777X 71.8 m span · 33.1 m clearance · hard
- Antonov An-124 Ruslan 73.3 m span · 32.4 m clearance · hard
- Airbus A380 79.8 m span · 29.1 m clearance · hard
- Antonov An-225 Mriya 88.4 m span · 24.8 m clearance · brutal
- Hughes H-4 Hercules 97.5 m span · 20.2 m clearance · brutal