Dassault Falcon 900 – trijets forever

I fly a three engine Falcon. I used to fly Hawkers and Gulfstreams. They all have their pros and cons. The Falcon flies the nicest and has excellent runway performance but that giant empennage makes them a bit of a handful in a gusty crosswind, especially with the long, low wing. Fun fact: The 900 uses the 50's wing.

Falcon trijets are such elegant aircraft

Can’t bear to watch this as long as the narrator keeps saying Dassooooo

My dad worked in corporate aviation with Falcons, Lears, Citations, Challengers, and Gulfstreams. A lot of the owners and pilots who have to regularly fly over the big oceans due appreciate the 3rd engine despite some of the downsides such as maintaining an “extra” engine.

Dassault = Da-SO

I am glad to have had the opportunity to tour a Falcon 900. Specifically, one of the Falcon Response jets. What a beautiful and comfortable plane. It makes me glad that trijets are still alive. They are such graceful planes.

There is an old joke in the piston era, about how many engines you need to be safe. The engineer tapped the captain on the shoulder and report engine number 24 failed, and the captain asked...........on which side?? Even with 4 engines, one Connie was almost dragged into the sea by a prop that refused to be feathered. The captain saved the plane by his idea of cutting off the oil to the prop and caused the shaft to seize and break. I doubt in today's glass cockpit, the pilots have controls of such fine details.

I just love them all around, from specs to design, flying characteristics to range, efficiency and how pilots love to fly them, and so much more. They are still my favorite airplanes, 900LX and 8X.

Great video. One comment: Dassault is pronounced “da-soh”

I used to tell my car stereo customers back in the day when car stereos were a thing.... "If you have room for 2 12" subs, you have room for 3 10" subs."

Trijets are so cool. Trimotors too.

This aircraft is why the F-16 is officially named the “Fighting Falcon.” The USAF wanted to call the F-16 “Falcon” in parallel with the F-15 being “Eagle” but Dassault had already grabbed the name for their bizjet.

Trijets have this certain something that makes them cooler. BTW the pronunciation is Dass (as in « ass ») - Oh.

It doesn’t need 3 engines. It has been designed with typical redundancy most aircraft have built in to the design. I5 gives confidence to owners who frequently fly over long stretches of water, ie, the Atlantic and Pacific

Falcon 900 is a sexy jet😍

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What a great video. Ive always seen lots of these at London City Airport..It makes so much more sense now given their versality

Sky after all your extra captions showing the Imperial measurement for metric units, you are still missing out thrust. The one thing I can't convert in my head. For everyone like me, 22.25 kilonewtons per engine is almost exactly 5,000lbs of thrust. As always, a great film. Looking forward to the lesser known soviet military aircraft. The Falcon was in the news this week as the RAF has a flight of them, one of which transported His Majesty King Charles III to Scotland.

Great stuff as always, thanks Sky!!