OurX-2 Starbuster Model Airplane's Detailed Design and Realistic Paint Scheme

Our X-2 Starbuster Model Airplane exhibits unmatched, unequaled quality and intricate design to achieve exactness and accuracy of the actual model. It also comes with a sturdy, durable base stand which comes in different colors of your choice and a polished chrome steel support mounting rod or avail our variable pitch wall mount accessory.

Our X2 Starbuster Model Plane is made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our craftsmen and artisans ensure finely handcrafted model airplanes with precise blueprint details of the original aircraft. The X2 Starbuster Model Plane's paint scheme, markings and parts are extremely complete, reflecting the original X2 Starbuster. This top-quality X2 Starbuster replica will surely mesmerize anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift. This X2 Starbuster Model Plane is definitely the ideal gift to every aviation enthusiast and avid aircraft collector, reviving the good, old flight memories for it displays perfect resemblance to the actual Starbusters.

X-2 Starbuster History:

The Bell X-2 Starbuster was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft built to investigate the structural effects of aerodynamic heating as well as stability and control effectiveness at high speeds and altitudes. The program was developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight, and to expand the speed and altitude regimes obtained with the earlier X-1 series of research aircraft.

Providing adequate stability and control for aircraft flying at high supersonic speeds was only one of the major difficulties facing flight researchers as they approached Mach 3. For speeds in that region, they knew they would also begin to encounter a "thermal barrier", severe heating effects caused by aerodynamic friction. Constructed of stainless steel and a copper-nickel alloy, and powered by a two-chamber XLR25 2,500 to 15,000 lbf (11 to 67 kN) thrust throttleable rocket engine, the X-2 was designed to probe this region.

While the X-2 exceeded Mach 3, in the course of doing so it uncovered the supersonic aircraft problem of inertial coupling. On its last flight, the aircraft crashed and the pilot was killed.