[PACK] Lockheed U2 Spyplane
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[PACK] Lockheed U2 Spyplane
The Lockheed U2 spyplane is a high altitude reconnaissance aircraft built by Lockheed skunk works for the United States Air Force. The aircraft was built 1957 and is still in operational service today.The aircraft is nicknamed the "Dragon Lady" due to it's 4 knot approx stall/over speed margin which is also referred to as "coffin corner". I hope you enjoy flying/spying in this legendary aircraft!
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0-30kft it is like a rocket ship. Full throttle gives you amazing speed/climb.
30-40k is slow going but you do get up there. The neutral (no trim or stick input) gamma of the aircraft switches from really positive (30 gamma) to somewhat negative (-5 to -10 gamma) (gamma is flight path angle above/below horizon)
40-50k This is where things get challenging. Maintaining airspeed and climbing (really slowly) is a challenge
50-60k This is where it gets really really tough to climb. With full fuel at start I couldn't get above 57k. With 25% fuel on start I was down to 5% fuel at 60k and could not really maintain that altitude. I also had about 10 degrees AoA and was slipping back towards a stall. The whole way from 40-60k It felt like I was on the back side of the power curve and really fighting to get every foot I could, all the while loosing speed.
All in all an excellent aircraft. I was a little disappointed by not getting to 70kft but knowing YSFlight limitations, the control realism in the upper altitude above 40k more than made up for it!
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Re: [PACK] Lockheed U2 Spyplane
Welsh's addon pack has the U2 pack in it, not sure if this helps but i figured id pass this information : D
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