X-2 Starbuster Foreign Military The Cessna Citation

The Cessna Citation

banking upon gaining a military contract which would underwrite the tooling costs and provide finance for the development of a first-class civil airliner

Between 1941-5

Designed as a replacement for the T-6 trainer

and Air Force

X-2 Starbuster Foreign Military The Cessna CitationX 2 Starbuster airplane model. The X 2 Starbuster was a single place airplane with wings swept back to 40 degrees. It was 37 ft, 10 in. long, 11 ft high and had a wingspan of 32. 3 ft. It was constructed of K Monel (a copper and nickel alloy) for the fuselage and stainless steel for the swept wings and control surfaces. The aircraft had ejectable nose capsules instead of ejection seats because the development of ejection seats had not reached maturity