Falcon 7X Race Amazing aircraft Dassault Aviation

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FALCON 7X RACE - Beautyfull aircraft. Low flying by Dassault Aviation Specifications - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Falcon_7X Data from Flight 2007 Pocket Guide to Business Aircraft ISBN 0-9554195-0-6 General characteristics Crew: Up to three Capacity: Up to 19 passengers (not including crew) Length: 23.38 m[9] (76 ft 8 in) Wingspan: 26.21 m (86 ft) Height: 7.93 m.[9] (26 ft 0 in) Wing area: 70.7 m² (761 ft²) Empty weight: 15,456 kg (34,072 lb) Max. takeoff weight: 31,750 kg (70,000 lb) Powerplant: 3 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW307A turbofans, 28.49 kN[9] (6,400 lbf) each Performance Maximum speed: Mach 0.90 (515 kn, 593 mph, 953 km/h) Cruise speed: 900 km/h (486 knots, 559 mph) Range: 5,940 nm (6,835 mi, 11,000 km) 8 passengers Service ceiling: 15 500 m (51,000 ft) Wing loading: 435 kg/m² (91 lb/ft²) The Falcon 7X is a three-engined cantilever monoplane with a low-positioned, high swept wing, it has a horizontal stabiliser at mid-height and a retractable tricycle landing gear.[9] It has three rear-mounted Pratt & Whitney PW307A turbofan engines, two on the side of the fuselage and one in a center position..[9] The long-range trijet has room for 20 passengers and two crew..[9] It is the first fully fly-by-wire business jet.[10] It is also equipped with the same avionics suite, the Honeywell Primus Epic "Enhanced Avionics System" (EASy), that was used on the Falcon 900EX and later on the Falcon 2000EX. The Falcon 7X is notable for its extensive use of computer-aided design, the manufacturer claiming it to be the "first aircraft to be designed entirely on a virtual platform",[11] using Dassault Systemes' CATIA and PLM products. It is also unusual in having an S-duct central engine, and is one of only two trijets currently in production, the other being the Dassault Falcon 900. It was also the first production Falcon jet to offer winglets. In February 2010, Dassault Falcon and BMW Group DesignworksUSA were awarded the 2009 "Good Design” award by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design for their successful collaboration on the new Falcon 7X interior option. Begun in 1964, the Reno Air Races feature multi-lap, multi-aircraft races among extremely high performance aircraft on closed ovoid courses which range between about 3 miles (Biplanes and Formula One) and about 8 miles (Jet, Unlimited) in length per lap. The chief organizer is the Reno Air Racing Association (RARA).[4] The first Reno air races, in 1964 and 1965, were organized by World War II veteran Bill Stead. They took place at Sky Ranch airfield, a dirt strip barely 2,000 feet (610 m) long, which was located in present-day Spanish Springs. After Stead Air Force Base (20 miles to the west, and named in honor of Bill's brother, Croston Stead) was closed in 1966, that field was turned over for public use, and the races have been held there since then. Aircraft in the Unlimited class, which consists almost entirely of both modified and stock World War II fighters, routinely reach speeds in excess of 400 miles per hour. In 2003, Skip Holm piloted Terry Bland's modified P-51D Mustang, Dago Red, and reached an all-time Unlimited class speed record of 507.105 mph in a six-lap race around the eight-and-a-half mile course. The recently added Sport Class racers, mostly homebuilt aircraft, are already reaching speeds in excess of 400 mph. In 2009, Curt Brown set a record of 538 mph on his jet-engine L-29 Viper.[5] The Reno Air Races include several days of qualifying, followed by four and a half days of multi-aircraft heat racing, culminating in the Unlimited Class Gold Race on Sunday afternoon. The event also features civil airshow acts and military flight demonstrations between races, plus vendor areas and a large civil and military static aircraft display. When the crash disater happened in 2011, the crowds have thinned down slightly. The races had a lower budget for the vendors in 2014 and 2015.