Mystery-Falcon

Mystery-Falcon is the initial name of the series of business aircrafts to engines built since 1963 by the French manufacturer Dassault Aviation. In 2005, Dassault Aviation holds with this range 40% of the worldwide market of the Aviation of business.

At the end of 2005, more than 1500 Falcon Dassault were in exploitation, including 60% in North America.

History

It is into 1954 that the research department of Mérignac considers a first project of Biréacteur of businesses under the name of the Mediterranean . In the absence of adapted motorization it is finally into 1961 that really the study on the basis of formula starts with engines out of nacelles postpones side using the engines Pratt & Whitney JT12 already used at the time by the Sabreliner and Lockheed JetStar. This program, undertaken by Rene Lemaire, is initially called Mystère 100 then will be finally the Mystère 20 .

The company Pan American World Airways was shown quickly very interested and a few hours before the first flight in May 1963, a delegation including/understanding Charles Lindbergh as a technical adviser went to Mérignac to see the prototype. Favorably impressed, the legend reports that Charles Lindbergh telegraphed the very same day with the director of the Side Am, Juan Trip: “ I' ve found our bird ”. ( I found our bird ). It was however requested from Dassault to adapt engines doubles flow General Electric CF700. The prototype steals on July 10th, 1964 with this motorization in the place of the 2 Pratt & Whitney JT12 A8 (of 1490 kg thorough each one). Very quickly, Pan Am places order of 40 apparatuses and announces the project to acquire 200 of them for a first delivery in 1965. The plane is américanisé and baptized Fan Jet Falcon . The navigability certificates are issued in June 1965. The name Falcon will remain definitively attached to the series.

In 1971, Frederick W. Smith, young contractor American imagines the concept of the fast transport of air cargo of night. It chooses finally Falcon 20 and orders 33 specimens of them. It is with these only planes that Federal Express train Corporation was born and functioned successfully during 10 years. It is not that in 1982 qu ' it replaced them by of Boeing 727 and the Douglas DC10.

Another American success of Falcon 20 was the sale of 41 apparatuses to the US Coast Guard in 1977.

In 1974, Dassault installs the factory of assembly Dassault Falcon Jet in the United States with Little Rock, Arkansas where convoyed planes " green" (in annealed glass painting) from France, will receive their final equipment and installations like their painting external according to the requests of the customers.

Characteristics of Mystery 20

many passengers: 8
passable distance: 2630 km (1420 Nm) or 4075 km (2200 Nm) with new engines
cruising speed max: Mach 0.78 or Mach 0.82 with new engines

scale: 16,30 m
length: 17,15 m
height: 5,32 m
wing surface: 41 m ²

driving: 2 X General Electric CF700-2D-2 (New possible motorization " retrofit" HONEYWELL TFE731-5AR or Br)

Series

The series of the Mystery-Falcon (with the date of the 1st flight):

Mystery 20 (Falcon 20) - May 4th, 1963 (pilot: Rene Bigand)
Falcon 10 - December 1st, 1970 (pilot: Herve Leprince-Ringuet)
Falcon 50 tri-jet - November 7th, 1976
Falcon 100 - February 10th, 1977
Falcon 200 - April 30th, 1980
Falcon 2000 - March 4th, 1993
Falcon 900 EX tri-jet - June 1st, 1995
Falcon 50EX tri-jet - April 10th, 1996
Falcon 900 C tri-jet - December 17th, 1998
Falcon 2000EX - October 25th, 2001
Falcon 7X tri-jet - May 5th, 2005
Falcon 900 EX tri-jet - May 10th, 2005
Falcon 2000EX - envisaged in 2007

EX means “Extended arranges” (wide operating range)

External bonds

Mystery 20 on the site of the CAEA
official site of the manufacturer

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