Profile image

U-2 Dragon Lady (VR)

150 cgross220  2.4 years ago

"The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed 'Dragon Lady', is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence gathering." This aircraft is still a bit of a work in progress, and the cockpit is based off of NASA's version--the ER-2. While in real life the orange skids on the wings fall off on take off, here you'll have to release them yourself with the yellow switch on the lower left panel in the cockpit or "2" on a keyboard. You can get up to 70,000 feet in game, but (like the real aircraft) its not easy to stay at that altitude. Landing is also quite the challenge as there is only one front and rear landing gear. VR COMPATIBLE

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Successors 4 airplane(s) +45 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 87.6ft (26.7m)
  • Length 43.5ft (13.2m)
  • Height 15.6ft (4.8m)
  • Empty Weight 8,884lbs (4,029kg)
  • Loaded Weight 13,227lbs (5,999kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.849
  • Wing Loading 25.5lbs/ft2 (124.3kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 519.4ft2 (48.3m2)
  • Drag Points 5047

Parts

  • Number of Parts 250
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 1,056
  • Log in to leave a comment
  • Profile image

    Awesome you did a great job

    2.2 years ago
  • Profile image
    150 cgross220

    @BarrowAircraft Same here, such a cool plane. Had trouble figuring out just which cockpit to use but think the ER-2 offered a good amount of upgrades from the cold war era but still had more of an old school feel to it

    +1 2.4 years ago
  • Profile image
    2,171 Chich2000

    Good Job! The U-2 is one of my favorite planes! And excellent work on the cockpit!

    2.4 years ago