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)