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The Archangel portrays a Cold War high-speed reconnaissance jet with twin afterburning turboramjets, a titanium airframe and blended delta wings. KwikFlight's product description includes staged afterburners and triethylborane ignition.
KwikFlight Archangel
KwikFlight · Read more ↗The reconnaissance simulation
KwikFlight describes twin turboramjet engines with staged afterburners and TEB igniters. The package's period autopilot and flight director include Pitch, Mach/Speed Hold, Roll, Heading and Auto-Nav modes. A reconnaissance suite provides tactical-camera and electro-optical views, with simulated infrared modes.
KwikFlight Archangel
KwikFlight · Read more ↗SR-71 control-system reference
The linked SR-71 flight manual describes irreversible hydraulic controls with artificial feel. Pitch and roll trim actuators sit downstream of the feel springs and do not displace the stick. This paragraph describes the reference aircraft's mechanism; KwikFlight documents its own simulated controls separately.
KwikFlight Archangel
Blackbird Simulations · Read more ↗Meet KwikFlight Archangel
The Archangel portrays a Cold War high-speed reconnaissance jet with twin afterburning turboramjets, a titanium airframe and blended delta wings. KwikFlight's product description includes staged afterburners and triethylborane ignition.
Its simulated cockpit provides pitch, Mach/speed, roll, heading and automatic-navigation modes, with TACAN and VOR navigation. Ground support includes an access ladder, external power and separate engine-start carts.
KwikFlight Archangel
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KwikFlight Archangel
KwikFlight · Archangel exact product review ↗Aircraft type designators
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History & design
A simulation of high-altitude reconnaissance
KwikFlight presents Archangel as an interpretation of Cold War supersonic reconnaissance for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Its development emphasis is Mach 3-class flight, twin afterburning engines and a period-style cockpit. Those are claims about the supplied simulation; the Blackbird aircraft’s service history and engineering sources remain distinct.
KwikFlight · Archangel exact product review ↗KwikFlight developer product description; simulator design
Recreating the support around the aircraft
Archangel includes simulated start carts, external power and a crew ladder, along with reconnaissance displays and refuelling features. Its autopilot provides pitch, speed or Mach, roll, heading and automatic navigation modes. These details describe the experience the developer chose to reproduce without implying that another developer’s SR-71 manual applies to this implementation.
KwikFlight · Archangel exact product review ↗Developer-listed product scope; checked 2026-10-12
Systems & details
The reconnaissance simulation
KwikFlight describes twin turboramjet engines with staged afterburners and TEB igniters. The package's period autopilot and flight director include Pitch, Mach/Speed Hold, Roll, Heading and Auto-Nav modes. A reconnaissance suite provides tactical-camera and electro-optical views, with simulated infrared modes.
SR-71 control-system reference
The linked SR-71 flight manual describes irreversible hydraulic controls with artificial feel. Pitch and roll trim actuators sit downstream of the feel springs and do not displace the stick. This paragraph describes the reference aircraft's mechanism; KwikFlight documents its own simulated controls separately.
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MSFS 2024KwikFlight Archangel
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KwikFlight Archangel
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Manuals & resources
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Archangel exact product reviewKwikFlight Archangel
Exact aircraft systems and release description
KwikFlight · Read the source ↗Developer manual
SR71A current developer manualKwikFlight Archangel
Original flight manual printed1-94 and1-96 / PDF124 and127, visually reviewed
Blackbird Simulations · Read the source ↗Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.
Developer documentation
Archangel exact product reviewKwikFlight · Exact aircraft systems and release descriptionDeveloper manual
SR71A current developer manualBlackbird Simulations · Original flight manual printed1-94 and1-96 / PDF124 and127, visually reviewedBuilt-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 1 profile choice
KwikFlight Archangel
KwikFlight · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2024
A high-speed reconnaissance rendition with twin afterburning engines and period navigation equipment.
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