Dassault Falcon 900 – trijets forever

The Dassault Falcon 900 is a business jet aircraft created by the French company Dassault in the mid-1980s. At one time, it was developed as a continuation of the concept of a medium business jet with three engines in the tail, which was represented by the Falcon 50. The new aircraft was distinguished by increased fuselage dimensions, greater capacity and flight range. The Falcon 900 has become one of the most successful business jets in its class, with more than 500 units delivered. Despite the fact that, technically, it is becoming obsolete and giving way to new models such as the Falcon 7X and 8X, production is still ongoing.

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00:00 – Falcon 900
00:40 – Family heir
03:22 – The Falcon 900 project
05:16 – The Falcon 900LX description
09:23 – Trijets in the 21st century
13:55 – Cabin and cockpit
17:46 – Honored Veteran

[elcheapo]

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.

[jonathanrobinson]

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.

[BGTech]

Falcon trijets are such elegant aircraft

[adityasanthanam]

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.

[ElectricUAM]

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.

[TheDwightMamba]

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."

[IndaloMan]

Back in the 80s I used to fly all over Saudi Arabia in a Falcon 50 owned by Philips Telecommunications. They had a fleet of Falcons with tail numbers from PH-ILA to PH-ILZ

[Msoja]

Love the Dassault aircraft and will own an 8X in the next 2 years.

[Mercury]

I've never heard of one of these Falcon's ever crashing, so it must be a winner !

[danjams]

Falcon 20 was the first airplane I remember FED EX first started out with. I worked at Denver Beechcraft FBO in the 1970s and FED EX came in every day to refuel with the Falcon 20s. It was a fledging company at the time.

[Mihaig]

The Cockpit shown at 4:05 is not the Honeywell Primus 2000 Cockpit, it is the Honeywell Primus EPIC CDS/R cockpit, it was a retrofit cockpit for the legacy F900B cockpits (SPZ based systems), the Primus 2000 Cockpits have smaller displays with bezels

[MilitaryScience-yq]

Falcon trijets are such elegant aircraft !!!

[Charly_Dont_Surf]

I see one of these airplanes parked at the local airport every week always wondering why the 3 engines. Thank you for the info.

[Bill_Woo]

Hello, Sky! It's great to hear your voice!

[ZekikAbdelhamid-vknf]

The show was so special and perfect, thanks a lot to designer for the great effort, ✨🌟✨ Forever love respect and success...Zekik Abdelhamid(Tetouan_North of Morocco)

[trumpmypresident]

As usual...., another " EXCELLENT " review. Enjoy very watching your programs especially when your subject matter is ...., " JETS ". 🎉🎇🎆🎊HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎊🎆🎇🎉

[bhumiriady]

Fascinating video on the Dassault Falcon 900!

Also, I'd love to see more videos on the Dassault Falcon series as well as other business jet series like the Cessna Citation one day.^^

[mscheuring]

I love all your videos! I found out about you by watching the "Wings of Russia" series.

[tonylam]

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 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.

[albertseabra]

The Falcon were and still are the best business jet available.