Bell X-2
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Bell X-2 #2 with a collapsed nose landing gear, after landing on the first glide flight, on 22 April 1952 at Edwards Air Force Base. | |
Jenis | Research aircraft |
Negara asal | United States |
Pembuat | Bell Aircraft |
Penerbangan perdana | 18 November 1955 (first powered flight) |
Dipensiunkan | 27 September 1956 |
Pengguna utama | United States Air Force National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
Jumlah | 2 |
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Bell X-2 (dijuluki "Starbuster"[1] ) adalah pesawat penelitian dibangun untuk menyelidiki karakteristik penerbangan di kisaran Mach 2-3. X-2 adalah pesawat bermesin roket, pesawat penelitian swept-wing supersonik dikembangkan bersama pada tahun 1945 oleh Bell Aircraft Corporation, Angkatan Udara AS dan National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) untuk mengeksplorasi masalah aerodinamika penerbangan supersonik dan untuk memperluas kecepatan dan ketinggian yang diperoleh dengan pesawat penelitian seri X-1 sebelumnya.
Spesifikasi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Karakteristik umum
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Kru: satu, pilot
- Panjang: 37 ft 10 in (11,5 m)
- Lebar sayap: 32 ft 3 in (9.8 m)
- Tinggi: 11 ft 10 in (3,6 m)
- Area sayap: 260 ft ² (24.2 m²)
- Airfoil: 2S-50 bicon
- Berat kosong: £ 12.375 (5.600 kg)
- Loaded berat: £ 24.910 (11.300 kg)
- Max. berat lepas landas: £ 24.910 (11.300 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Curtiss-Wright XLR25 mesin roket, 15.000 lbf (67 kN) di permukaan laut
Prestasi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Kecepatan maksimum: Mach 3,196 (2.094 mph, 3.370 km / jam)
- Layanan langit-langit: 126.200 ft (38.466 m)
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Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Curry, Marty. "Bell X-2 Starbuster." NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, 15 December 2009.
- Everest, Lt. Col. Frank and Guenther, John. "Fastest Man Alive." New York, E. P. Dutton, 1958. LoC 57-8998.
- Hallion, Dr. Richard P. "Saga of the Rocket Ships." AirEnthusiast Five, November 1977-February 1978. Bromley, Kent, UK: Pilot Press Ltd., 1977.
- Machat, Mike. Color Schemes of the Bell X-2." Airpower, Volume 35, no. 1 January 2005.
- Matthews, Henry. The Saga of the Bell X-2, First of the Spaceships . Beirut, Lebanon: HPM Publications, 1999. No ISBN
- Winchester, Jim. "Bell X-2." Concept Aircraft: Prototypes, X-Planes and Experimental Aircraft. Kent, UK: Grange Books plc, 2005. ISBN 978-1-84013-809-2.
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