The Falcon 7X is the Avion of top-of-the-range businesses of the company Dassault Aviation. It is a sorting engine (Pratt & Whitney PW307-A) which is certified to cross a distance from 11  000 km and to fly at a speed about Mach   0,85.

Design

Falcon 7X is the first plane in the world to be developed entirely in a numerical die thanks to the new computer tools created by the company Dassault Systèmes. Thanks to CATIA and with PLM, no prototype nor model were produced. The shapes and the architecture of the plane were conceived only on numerical model.

The first flight proceeded the May 5th 2005 with the hands of Yves Kerhervé and Philippe Deleume who could test the various systems and more particularly the electric orders of flight: a first for a business aircraft. This inaugural flight carried out at the beginning of the airport Bordeaux-Mérignac lasted 1 hour 30 and made it possible to reach the altitude of 25  000 foot S (approximately 7600 m) and the speed of 280 node S (approximately 520 km/h).

It received its certification the April 27th 2007 simultaneously on behalf of the European Agence of the air security and the Federal Aviation American Administration. The beginning of the deliveries with the customers was carried out in the month of June 2007. Its price borders the 40 million US dollars according to the interior equipment and the options chosen by the customers. Its development required an investment of 700 million euros. For the realization of its new project, Dassault-Aviation created partnerships with division of risks with the principal equipment suppliers retained on Falcon 7X:

• Latécoère (section of the back Fuselage, carries baggage hold, electric wiring carried out by LATelec)
• EADS Socata (central higher section, soft belly)
• EADS CASA (horizontal stabilizer)
• SONACA (de-iced leading edges fixed and nozzles)
• Stork-Fokker (shutters, air-brakes and spoilers, ailerons)
• Goodrich (secondary system of control of flight, generation and electric distribution, anemometry, detection of white frost)
• Pratt & Whitney Canada (driving, thrust reversers and nacelles)
• Messier-Dowty (landing gears)
• Honeywell (integrated avionics, air conditioning, starting with air, APU)
• ECE (lighting)
• ELTA (system of de-icing of the windshields)
• Intertechnique (circulation and gauging of the fuel, oxygenate)
• Dassault Equipement (electric orders of flight)
• Parker (hydraulic system)
• ABSC (brake and wheels)
• ACSS (anti-collision system TCAS)
• Bozec (system of filtration)
• Rockwell Collins Head-Up Guidance System (system of visualization " head haute")
• hotel (detection and extinction set fire to) the
• MPC (levers of throttle linkage)
• SOGITEC (pilot simulator and technical documentation of maintenance)

The Dassault Aviation company hopes to sell 300 of them to 400 specimens during the 10 to 15 next years. Dated April 27th, 2007, day of its certification to Bordeaux-Mérignac, Falcon 7X already was the object of more than 160 firm controls coming of more than 30 countries in the world. Interior installation will be made with Little Rock in the Arkansas as for all the other planes of the range Falcon.
The static tests of the structure until ultimate load were completed successfully in July 2006.

It supplants the Falcon 900EX in the current high-end of the planes Falcon.

It is equipped with a cockpit EASy (Enhanced Avionics System) conceived by Dassault-Aviation on the basis of system EPIC/PRIMUS developed by the company Honeywell common to all the planes Falcon in the course of production. This cockpit is built around four broad screens laid out in T, two calculators modular Avionique associated with Trackball S and multifunction keyboards. Two side mini-handles make it possible the crew to fly the plane thanks to electric orders of flight to reinforced safety.

The aerofoil is designed to have an output improved of 30  % allowing him a more important autonomy and short landings as well as an increase in the operating range.

Falcon 7X is composed of approximately 50  000  parts.

Bonds

• Specifications of the manufacturer

• Site dedicated to certification

• Airliners.net (images)

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