Building the stadiumit appears here in a moment. Tap the screen, or press the space bar, to fly.
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FNB Stadium is the largest in Africa at 94,000 seats, and everyone calls it the Calabash because that is what it looks like: an African cooking pot in fired-clay colours with a ring of light round the base. It staged the 2010 World Cup final; Nelson Mandela gave his first speech here after leaving prison. The lap takes you over it and out across Soweto and the pale gold mine dumps the city was built on.
South Africa vs New Zealand Test 2026 · Johannesburg · 5 September 2026
FNB Stadium is the largest in Africa at 94,000 seats, and everyone calls it the Calabash because that is what it looks like: an African cooking pot, its skin patterned in fired-clay colours with a ring of light around the base. It staged the 2010 World Cup final. Its real history is older — Nelson Mandela gave his first speech here after leaving prison in 1990, and this is where the country said goodbye to him in December 2013. It stands on the edge of Soweto, the township that carried the 1976 uprising, and the mine dumps you can see from the air are the pale yellow spoil of the gold reef Johannesburg was built on.
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Tap the screen, or press the space bar, and your jetpack fires. Let go and gravity takes it back. That is the whole flight model — how high you get and how long you stay there both come out of how often you tap. To move across the line, press A and D, drag sideways with a finger, or tilt your phone.
The number in the top corner is your clearance: how close you came to the roof of the stadium as you crossed it. Lower is better, because that is the entire point of a flypast. Under twelve metres is where it starts to get interesting.
Gold rings sit along the route — sixty points through the outside, a hundred and fifty for the inner ring, three hundred for a bullseye, which also builds a combo up to three times. Once a lap a line of blue rings takes you seventy metres up and over, and everything scores double up there. Player jerseys and real pieces of history float on the circuit; fly through one and it stays in your collection on this device.
Seagulls. A single one you can dodge; a flock is too wide to go around, so go over or under it. Fly long enough and the light goes, the floodlights come up and the rain arrives. From the second lap on, each lap sets you a challenge worth between fifteen hundred and twenty-five hundred points.