First announced in 2024, the aircraft has gone through several iterations and revisions: 3 cockpit remakes, 2 external remakes, and 2 avionics remakes. It was not the schedule we planned for, but it has enabled us to create a much better offering.
The aircraft & variants
- U-2S — current high-altitude recon airframe, digital glass cockpit
- U-2R — same mission profile, analog cockpit
- ER-2 — same R-airframe and cockpit, NASA's high-altitude science platform
- Cockpit model & texturing: ~90% complete
- External model & texturing: ~90% complete
- Final livery list: 27 liveries, many of them completed.
Missions & special features
- 15 missions (Mission Hub required): USSR flyovers, Chinese balloon incident, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Chase cars from multiple eras: 1980s USAF, current USAF, current NASA, with realistic audio calls.
- Modeled GSE: GPUs, ASUs, crew transfer vans, stairs
- Realistic Pre-flight flows: service LOX (liquid oxygen) tanks, review logbook, check maintenance remarks
- Failures and maintenance cycles simulated
U-2 Datalink Portal
- Web-based interface with optional live telemetry tied to your aircraft
- IMINT and SIGINT collection
- Land survey via ASARS-2
- Weather survey data modeled on NASA's variants.
- All the information captured in-sim is available for download on the web Datalink Portal.
Avionics & sensors
- U-2S: CDU, full MFD glass cockpit (with over 35+ simulated pages), RADNAV
- U-2R / ER-2: Stormscope, INS unit, camera viewfinder.
- Sensor suite: optical camera, terrain radar, weather sensor (NASA)
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