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BLACK BUDGET BIRD

Opening the hangar…

ARTICLE 2B · PROGRAM REACTIVATED

BLACK BUDGET BIRD

Blackbird Recon II

They retired the SR-71 in 1998. Somebody kept one. Five sorties, one airframe, no paper trail.

Headphones recommended. Audio starts on your first click.

OPERATIONS BOARD

Sorties

      FREE FLIGHT

      Pick a sky

      HANGAR · PROCEDURAL AIRFRAME

      Article 2B

      Generated in Blender from analytic planform and section functions: lens-lofted chines and wing, lathed nacelles, translating spikes, all-moving fins. Drag to orbit, wheel to zoom.

      PILOT PREFERENCES

      Settings

      FLIGHT MANUAL · SECTION 4

      Controls

      WS pitch · AD roll · QE rudder
      R/F throttle (past 72% = afterburner)
      C chase / cockpit / tactical / flyby · right-drag to look
      Tab RSO sensor seat — mouse/arrows slew, wheel zoom, Space shoot, X optical / SLR
      O optical bar camera (auto frames near your ground track)
      L ELINT recorder · J DEF jammer (3 charges)
      U restart an unstarted inlet — hold opposite rudder first
      G gear · B brakes, then drag chute on the ground
      Z autopilot hold · T time compression · K skip to final approach
      M map · H HUD · Esc pause
      Gamepad: sticks fly, triggers throttle, A shoot, B jam, X ELINT, Y view, bumpers restart / camera.
      CREDITS

      Black Budget Bird

      Design, direction and music: Eric Rhea. Sequel to Blackbird Recon: SR-71 and the Black Budget Bird music video.

      Airframe, cockpit, tanker, SAM batteries, radar vans, radomes, hangars and picket ships: procedurally generated in Blender 5.2 with Python (tools/blender). World: GPU clipmap terrain, altitude-aware atmosphere, curved planet, ocean and cloud decks — all procedural, no textures shipped.

      Sound: auditioned and cut from Eric's SFX library. Engine: Three.js r185, static files only.

      All people, places, units and programs in the campaign are fictional.

      SORTIE PAUSED

      Holding

      MISSION DEBRIEF
      A