The Citation X has seating for 6 passengers in good comfort and the pilot cabin sits 2. According to Cessna engineers the Citation X needed as many actuators and hydraulic pumps as a Boeing 737 aircraft and with much lesser space within its wings that was a real challenge.Ĭoming to the inside now – the Citation X uses glass cockpit avionics – the Ultra modern Honeywell Primus 2000 EFIS with a 5 color CRT displays. The Cessna Citation X is also the first Cessna to use controls powered by dual hydraulic systems for redundancy. The one piece wing is placed on the bottom half of the fuselage thus increasing cabin space. This swept wing design along with a supercritical airfoil benefits the Citation X to attain its very important Mach number thus the super high speed. The wing sweepback at quarter chord on the Citation X is 37 degrees which is only second to the mighty Boeing 747 with is swept 37.5 degrees and is considerably more than any other private jets. This Cessna also uses much longer wings compares to any other Citation. Even though the fuselage uses a common design the position where the wings are attached to the fuselage on the Citation X is very different from any other previous Citations. Though the Citation X borrows its fuselage design from the previous Citations – namely the III VI and VII, the Citation X has more head and shoulder room than its older brothers and though some of the design directions in this aircraft may look similar to other Citations – the commonality of parts is limited to the windshield, the tail light bulb and few cockpit and cabin controls. The engine has solid Titanium blades and 3 stage low pressure turbine and benefits the fuel economy and engine noise through its 5 to 1 bypass ratio. Pumping out 6700 lbf per engine the Rolls Royce engines are really very very powerful for a jet of the size of the Citation X, and we should not forget to mention here due to usage of many advanced features the engines are also distinctly quieter than any other comparable private jet airplane. A very important feature in the Citation X is the large diameter of the engine intakes which is related to the high bypass ratio turbofans. The Cessna Citation X uses Allison AE 300 7A engines – equipped with FADEC with gives it the capacity to run at 703 miles per hour making it one of the fastest modes for civilian transport. Say for example flying from New York to Los Angeles will take the Citation X 4 hours and 10 minutes compared to 5 hours on other similar or larger business jets. Due to its high cruise speed which is from 150 to 200 km/hr faster than all other civilian jets this Citation according to Cessna can save passengers about an hour. The Citation X is a long ranger specially designed for transcontinental flights, the whole design objective was to fit in a trans Atlantic range with in a mid size package that can travel faster than any other aircraft in the world, and we must say that they have well succeeded. The Cessna Citation X is the biggest existing member of the Citation family from Cessna, not only that – the Citation X is also the third fastest civilian aircraft in the world, well actually the Concorde and Tupolev Tu-144 were faster, but they are no more produced.
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