Keyboard: in the planet view, arrow keys rotate and plus or minus zoom. In the aviation lab, see Help for flight controls.

WORLD ENGINE Genesis 001
Science service: checking…
  1. Brakes off B
  2. Full throttle R
  3. At 145 kt hold S
  4. Gear up G
  5. Turn A D

WORLD ENGINE

Starting…

Controls & model status

Planet view

Drag · one fingerOrbit the globe
Wheel · pinch · +/−Zoom
←→↑↓Rotate
ClickInspect the globe or the airport marker
Double-click marker · Enter on buttonEnter the Aviation Lab

Aviation lab

W / ↑ · S / ↓Nose down · nose up (yoke convention)
A / ← · D / →Roll left · roll right (bank returns slowly to level)
Q · ERudder / nose-wheel steering left · right
R · FThrottle up · down (hold)
G · BLanding gear · wheel brakes
CCycle camera: chase → orbit → tower
Space · .Play/pause · single step (while paused)
M · ?Return to planet · open this help
Drag · wheelLook around · camera distance or zoom

Flight keys are ignored while a slider, list or text field has focus, so sliders keep their own arrow-key behaviour. Controls act through the simulation clock: while paused, held keys do not move the aircraft.

Status vocabulary

About this prototype

Genesis 001 is the opening stage of a long-term research platform. The globe, airport and aircraft geometry are illustrative. The flight model is a documented, software-tested point-mass approximation that has not been validated against reference flight data. No value shown here is a real observation or forecast.