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{{Short description|Experimental aircraft build to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2β3 range}} {{Infobox aircraft |name = X-2 |image = File:X-2_with_Collapsed_Nose_Wheel_-_GPN-2000-000398.jpg |caption = Bell X-2 #2 with a collapsed nose landing gear, after landing on the first glide flight, on 27 June 1952 at Edwards Air Force Base. |type = [[Experimental aircraft|Research aircraft]] |national_origin = [[United States]] |manufacturer = [[Bell Aircraft]] |designer = |first_flight = 27 June 1952 (first drop glide)<br>18 November 1955 (first powered flight) |introduction = |retired = 27 September 1956 |status = |primary_user = [[United States Air Force]] |more_users = [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] |produced = |number_built = 2 |unit cost = |developed_from= |variants = }} The '''Bell X-2''' (nicknamed "Starbuster"<ref name=fact>{{cite news |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-079-DFRC.html|title=NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Bell X-2 Starbuster|work=[[Armstrong Flight Research Center]]|last=Gibbs|first=Yvonne |date=February 28, 2014|access-date=July 16, 2017}}</ref>) was an [[List of X-planes|X-plane]] [[experimental aircraft|research aircraft]] built to investigate flight characteristics in the [[Mach number|Mach]] 2β3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by [[Bell Aircraft]] Corporation, the [[United States Army Air Forces]] 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 [[Bell X-1|X-1]] series of research aircraft.
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