Dassault Falcon 50 Ex

The Dassault Falcon 50 is a French-built cool mid-sized, all-embracing accumulated jet, featuring a three jet agent blueprint with an S-duct axial engine. It has the aforementioned assembly cantankerous area and agnate accommodation as the beforehand Falcon 20 but is a absolutely fresh design, with as able-bodied as the third engine, a added avant-garde addition architecture and acclimation with the Area rule.[2]

The aboriginal ancestor flew on 7 November 1976, with French airworthiness acceptance on 27 February 1979, followed by US Federal Aviation Administration acceptance on 7 March 1979.[2]

The Falcon 50 was after replaced by the Falcon 50EX, the aboriginal of which flew in 1996,[3] and the aftermost of which was delivered in 2008. The Falcon 50EX appearance bigger engines and added enhancements to accord added ambit improvements to an already gangling jet. It charcoal a actual accepted accumulated jet for its long-range, luxury, and for the acceptance of cachet for owning a fast three-engined jet.

The aftermost Falcon 50EX was bogus in backward 2007 and delivered in aboriginal 2008.

Successors of the Falcon 50 are the Falcon 7X[5] and the Falcon 900 featuring a beyond assembly and the aforementioned three-engine arrangement. Dassault Falcon appear in January 2008 what is about a backup aircraft for the Falcon 50, codenamed the "SMS" (Super Mid Size). The basal architecture process, including agent baddest was declared to be completed by the aboriginal 2009. However, in a June 2009 columnist conference, CEO Charles Edelstenne said that all architecture choices had been reopened and the ambition was entended to the end of the year.



Dassault and Aviation Partners Inc. accept appear that High Mach Blended Winglets are actuality developed for the Falcon 50 as a retrofit kit.

General characteristics

* Crew: Two

* Capacity: 8 to 9 passengers

* Length: 18.52 m (60 ft 9¼ in)

* Wingspan: 18.86 m (61 ft 10½ in)

* Height: 6.97 m (22 ft 10½ in)

* Addition area: 46.83 m² (504.1 ft²)

* Empty weight: 9,150 kg (20,170 lb)

* Max ascent weight: 18,500 kg (40,780 lb)

* Powerplant: 3× Garrett TFE731-3-1C turbofan engines, 16.5 kN (3,700 lbf) each

Performance

* Maximum speed: Mach 0.86

* Cruise speed: Mach 0.82

* Range: 6,480 km (3,500 NM, 4,025 sm)

* Service ceiling: 14,935 m (49,000 ft)