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

[@elcheapo5302]

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.

[@jdean2131]

Very Cool!

[@BGTech1]

Falcon trijets are such elegant aircraft

[@jonathanrobinson7573]

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.

[@dr.victorvs]

I suppose that's one of the better downsides when you're flying over the ocean.

[@parimal7528]

Yet it was more fuel efficient than 2 engine jets.

[@Chris_at_Home]

I worked for a large communications company and the 3 top people in that company came to my worksite in the Arctic. I asked the CEO about all 3 of them being on the plane together and he told me they only fly together if they were in a 3 engine jet. The Falcon had about the same footprint of a 737 but with a narrower fuselage. My first thought was most accidents happen during takeoff and landing and the number of engines doesn’t make a difference.

[@minhpham-yh9qn]

@@Chris_at_Homethe validity of that statement just nulls out the other ones. I was told most accident happen at take off and landing so most people with multi engine just slam into the crash site faster

[@clownhands]

A catastrophic failure of engine 3 can disable both hydraulic systems and short both electrical buses. Modern dual engine planes are more resilient.

[@tonylam9548]

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.

[@adityasanthanam1945]

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.

[@davidcheung8595]

Did you ever have any opportunities to tour other well-known competitors?

[@adityasanthanam1945]

@@davidcheung8595 No, sadly. I just happened to meet the pilot, who gave me a tour of the plane.

[@johnwambe5577]

​@@davidcheung8595 What other private jets would you recommend compared to the Falcon 10X?

[@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."

[@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.

[@Coyote27981]

Dassault = Da-SO

[@GoSolarPlz]

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

[@dougball328]

Thank you. Da-Soo was driving me nuts!

[@semaex]

Are you sure its not pronounced "Dessous" xD

[@albertseabra9226]

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

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

Nope.

[@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.

[@machintrucGaming]

Kinda wild a cargo airline started by using a bunch of private jets

[@PRH123]

I knew one of the guys that did the cargo door modification to the falcons. I think they still have a falcon hanging in the foyer of one of the buildings in Memphis.

[@PRH123]

​@@machintrucGaming they had to at the time, moving to cargo aircraft required legislative rule changes that FX lobbied for in its early years The falcons were operated if I remember correctly as air-taxi (part 135), rather than as regularly scheduled (part 121), in the beginning, until FX got the rules changes that it needed.

[@mro9466]

The Lockheed Jetstar has literally 4 engines ☝🤓

[@mitseraffej5812]

Along with pneumatic de icing boots, the weirdest stabiliser trim system imaginable where the fin moved with the stabiliser and so many dials and gauges it’s a wonder it didn’t require a flight engineer.

[@daveblevins3322]

I remember refueling a Jetstar as a ramp rat back in 74. Those bullet tanks in the wings were pretty thirsty 💥💥

[@AITCHESSPEE]

@@daveblevins3322why did they have to turn you guys into rats for that job? That sounds cruel and unethical.

[@Bill_Woo]

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

[@paulmoor595]

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

[@robbyowen9107]

Great stuff as always, thanks Sky!!

[@COIcultist]

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.

[@hugolafhugolaf]

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

[@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

[@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.^^

[@byrondot]

Falcon 900 is a sexy jet😍

[@Toll_Booth_Willie]

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

[@Saml01]

Another great video. Great Job!

[@mscheuring70]

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

[@28ebdh3udnav]

If you're new to the game, check out mentour now!

[@Mihaig543]

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

[@ZekikAbdelhamid-vk4nf]

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)

[@A_Nice_Guy.]

The French Directorate General of Civil Aviation logo looks like the Indonesian Ministry of Transportation logo, neat. @3:11

[@raheemabdul1066]

haha thats exactly the same logo

[@raheemabdul1066]

he used the wrong logo in the video, the french one says DGAC

[@patolt1628]

@@raheemabdul1066 Correct, it's not the right logo

[@pachiquesipe2057]

Wrong logo of DGAC 😂😂😂😂

[@hilman94]

that's my thought, i think he put the wrong "dgca" when googling the logo... 🤣

[@faisalhayatkhan5447]

Very informative

[@rudybriskar5267]

Beautiful bird!

[@bendafyddgillard]

Beautiful and obscene, like Marie Antoinette.

[@TRPGpilot]

Thank you for utilising the International System of Units commonly known as 'metric' . . .

[@aaronaustrie]

What a classic 🔥

[@mcal27]

Great Video Sky.. But a humble request for more of the lesser known Soviet military aircraft please 🙏

[@SkyshipsEng]

Coming soon)

[@mcal27]

@@SkyshipsEng thanks ))

[@spladam3845]

I'd love to fly one.

[@mytmousemalibu]

Ive wrenched on an early 90's Falcon 700 a couple times and a Falcon 20. No mistaking them for anything but French! Nice plane though.

[@Sometungsten]

Dassault - the accent is on the first syllable.

[@micstonemic696stone]

England's Hawker business jet has been with us for a while has updated over the years with new Technologies Front two cockpit windows have a different look more Sporty maybe I like that Falcon if I could only choose

[@oxcart4172]

For those saying that the pronunciation of Dassault is wrong, how do u pronounce Paris?

[@thhseeking]

How do you pronounce Berwick? Worcestershire? Barnoldswick?

[@machintrucGaming]

It's not Da-Suu but Das-uu-lt

[@blazejibo758]

"The Dassoooo" 😃

[@stein1385]

Yes 👍

[@superskullmaster]

Actually a twin loses more like 60-65% of the relative thrust because of the drag the rudder deflection causes.

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

What? No. 😂

[@danielrose1392]

Not sure where you got these numbers from, but it's definitely not that bad for rear mounted jet engines. One advantage of this mounting position is a minimal leverage for the engine so asymetric thrust barely moves the plane. Worst are short and slow twin propeller planes. In these planes Those planes sometimes have a Vmc far above the (twin engine) stall speed. If you fly slower and an engine fails, you gut a huge problem. Depending on the type your rudder will cause too much drag and you can't accelerate without loosing altitued, or at full deflection of your rudder you won't be able to fly straight ahead. So yes, if you can't even use full thrust of your remaining engine, you are quickly left with very little thrust.

[@superskullmaster]

@@danielrose1392 for sure a rear mounted twin will be much closer to 50%, I was speaking about something like a 757, 767 or 777 that is is heavily loaded

[@kolerick]

and Dassault did create software suits to design their planes... that were adopted by many other industries

[@Fran_SG]

A very nice plane. A myth. I love it.

[@rtbrtb_dutchy4183]

You should look up what “myth” means.

[@luto2000]

What’s the clip at 3:53 from?

[@denverbraughler3948]

Why do you say “Dissoult” instead of “Dassault” (da`so)?

[@rocketPower047]

I'll forever call them Dasooo, now

[@argamulyana]

bro put the wrong logo for the dgaf 😭😭, that logo was for indonesian ministry of transportation

[@bunyavissuthisorn8774]

The aeronautical engineers could not design and limit the empty weights of fuselage that suited for 2 engines so the extra one more must be needed.

[@polarking888]

Yak141 video please

[@ml.2770]

moar power!

[@peteyou2325]

Two if by land, three if by sea.

[@montanaosprey9840]

Sky, I love your channel. How long have you been “gone” from Mother Russia? And, lastly, I’ve always heard it pronounced “Da-sew”! Cheers!

[@PlanetFrosty]

About 3:45

[@alfiospuson7165]

I will buy one

[@marlibread]

I did a little when chuckle when you used London to give range...and not Paris..

[@zoidbergfluffybutt4991]

Learned a lot from this. First and foremost I've been pronouncing Dessault incorrectly for about 30 years.

[@markiangooley]

For this American, it helps to remember the correct pronunciation of Sault Ste. Marie…

[@gillescote4405]

And above you misspelled it..should be Dassault not Dessault! The narrator mispronounced it, sounding like Soo rather than Sault...it should sound like Da-Soh!! It happens a lot in the US where the folks really butcher many of the French words!

[@kendallevans4079]

@@gillescote4405 Screw the French! What do they know...Any country which produces Mime's and the men wear thongs at pubic pools is disgusting!

[@christianbayerstein5243]

The era of 3 engine private jets is over, even Dassault gives up and replaces the 900lx and 8x trijets by the 6x and 10x twinjets.

[@vaffangool9196]

I had to make a decision whether to continue watching this video despite the voiceover insisting on calling the manufacturer Dassoo. Still salty about it but I made it to the end. Didn't learn much but the beauty shots were worth it.

[@parimal7528]

Dassault should bring something to compete with PC24 with gravel landing feature. It's 10x will certainly beat G700.

[@pachiquesipe2057]

Say ' DA SAW' ... not DA SOOOO 😂

[@micstonemic696stone]

If I could choose my own jet I have been aware of the three engine Dassault Falcon, and that France don't really make bad aircraft and never have Should the opportunity arise I would buy an analogue Falcon trinket Thank you for making me aware of its abilities I would choose this over a gulfstream and also the etops regulations doesn't apply here I am so pleased you are still making videos With you I can properly learn about an aircraft which I love immensely and I am educated in the turbojet, thank you sky I wish you well. Mic 🙂

[@henriachalme443]

Bellevideohhenri🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Patriot3]

I know the answer to the question. So it can speed to create lift.

[@ABCantonese]

If this is the case with trijets, will we ever see new Dash-7s or A340s?

[@brianb-p6586]

There is approximately zero chance of a Dash-7 revival. Even the restart of Dash-8 (Q400) production is not certain, and it it is far more desirable to customers.

[@ABCantonese]

@@brianb-p6586 Yeah that was mostly a joke. Is anyone surviving in the prop-liner business?

[@brianb-p6586]

@@ABCantonese De Havilland is planning to restart the DHC-8-400, and lots are in service. The alternative is of course the ATR 72. I assume the Embrader, Dornier, and Saab models are long gone from production, but they remain in service. They all seem to be settling into cargo and specialty roles (where efficiency is the most important factor) rather than airline service. Two props, of course...

[@piratapan]

03:54 - Is that from a movie?

[@BGTech1]

Wondering that too

[@machintrucGaming]

It's from french movie "Mon Cousin" released in 2020. Can't find much about it. The film might not even be preserved somewhere

[@piratapan]

@@machintrucGaming Thanks m8!

[@patolt1628]

This one I don't know but at 18:11 there is a short sequence from the film "Les Chevaliers du Ciel" (The Sky Knights), released in 2005 and based on a famous cartoon in France (Tanguy et Laverdure) 🙂

[@turipz]

It's not pronounced "Dassoo" - it's "Dasso", like you pronounce water in French - "Eau" (like "Eau de toilette", and in this configuration, with the engines being at the very back of the plane - they push it, not pull it.

[@darkcassoulet1041]

DASSOU

[@farminky]

The 10x has only 2 "🔥💓"🤣🤣🤣

[@captnjim44smith74]

A third engine in the tail, not three engines in the tail !

[@tonylam9548]

The ETOPS considerations been less important by operating costs considerations. Twin engined planes had to be more powerful to meet FAA single engine climb requirement. When an engine of a twin failed, you lose by your figures about 50% of the power, but in real life, is actually closer to 60% , and the 3 engine about 40%, because not only the failed engine is not working, but is dead weight and drag and you cannot feather the first stage fan. Also, recent decades of engine failures have taught the industry it is not so much how many engines you have , but how it failed. Jets sometimes failed by exploding and one such explosion of an L1011 cut all three hydraulic systems, and the A380 engine failure damaged other vital systems, luckily it happened close to an airport, then there was the Airbus with a fuel leak over the Atlantic.

[@christianbayerstein5243]

It is time that the old Falcon 900 is replaced by the new 6x.

[@bernhardecklin7005]

Very interesting, thank you. Detail: Please pronounce Dassault correctly. It is pronounced "DASSO" and not " DASSU".

[@jamielancaster01]

Taylor Swift has one of these that she uses 10 times or more a month.

[@jamielancaster01]

Her other aircraft is also a Dassault Falcon but it’s the 7X which is much bigger and has longer range

[@ClutchCobraKID1]

More engines is more better lol. Yea what he said: No wack side sticks here lol.

[@giselasilva5415]

Dasseute 😂 just joking, good to know you keep posting videos ❤

[@GoSolarPlz]

Da-so

[@thomasburke7995]

Much like the L1011.. the falcon tri-jets default to thier military heritage then hipster trendy designs of thier competition. Windscreens replacements are simple and cheap with the 700 a single square pane , unlike a g5 which is curved and specific to left or right.

[@RazvanMihaeanu]

All I want to know if the French President's Dassault Falcon 900 (has 2 of them) can land on - and take of from ... Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. 😇

[@astafford8865]

All I want to know is why there are no photographs of Microns "partner" under 30.

[@dougball328]

His explanation of loss of engine on takeoff is flawed. The certification requirements are such that with one engine out, a twin has a greater climb gradient capability than a tri, and a tri is greater than a quad. So you have greater excess thrust, one engine out, on a twin. All due to the way cert requirements drove the design.

[@victorpelini5995]

Dassault is pronounced "dass o" in one go L t are silent lol (typical french)

[@andreaskole958]

Ye typical french

[@Saml01]

Like Renault.

[@thhseeking]

@@andreaskole958 Oh, and English is better? Berwick is pronounced "Berrick", Worcestershire is pronounced "Woostersheer"...

[@thhseeking]

As I commented below, English is no better.

[@patolt1628]

@@thhseeking You are right, except that English is a guessing game while in French the pronounciation is related to rules so that you always know how to pronounce any word. In this case for instance: the "au" combination of letters is always pronounced "o" and the last consonants are never pronounced in French language. They are just spelling indicators so to speak. Consequently Dassault (in terms of pronunciation) could be written "Dasso". The same applies to Renault, etc ...😊

[@crhu319]

Subsonic private jets are obsolete. A corporate flert today should be made of equally fast props: incredibly economic longer range electric motor, fuel cell drawing hydrogen gas fuel. Who land on 300-350m of runway.

[@kimsmoke17]

Narrator must be from Sault sainte Marie -lmfao

[@andymccurley1]

What's a Dasssssoooo?

[@jumboJetPilot]

Ha ha, showing a clip of my C-5, huh?!? I flew C-5’s for 20 years.

[@ronoconnor8971]

Elvis’ bizjet is being turned into a bus. So sad

[@andylewis210]

I don’t believe it’s pronounced DASOOOOO!!!😂

[@fartmoderne7205]

It’s “da-SO”

[@andylewis210]

@@fartmoderne7205 indeed!

[@seth3209]

3 engines bc more pilots can’t keep the plane at altitude with 1 less engine!

[@alexmikhael5061]

3 engines don't have that 1 engine out duals spin?? lol hehhe I like the logic, 3 smaller engines to get same thrust ''effects or effictive'' thrust anyhow... ( I kno they said something about the numbers beeing significantally different with the smaller engines are like WAY SMALLER ... but better across the board... :) eh and ''there are insane amounts of them available'' means that when problems arize there is always another engine if the parts are Missing in Shipping or wutever... ;)

[@superskullmaster]

I’m team North America but the three holers from France are the sexiest business jets there are.

[@michaelgill7248]

All of the completions (interior, avionics, etc.) deliveries are done in Little Rock, AR.

[@superskullmaster]

@@michaelgill7248 Merica!!!

[@balisaani]

Not bad for an ai generated and narrated video.

[@adrianrubi5012]

Is this one of those business jets that are Single Pilot certified?

[@patolt1628]

Interesting video but, as a Frenchman, I'm a little bit annoyed when I hear continuously that the French are doing everything differently. You can't refrain from making this kind of cheap and tiring joke even if you don't mean anything ... Well if it's true, then the rest of the world is wrong 😉 You should try to take interest in some French culture to understand better the mindset and avoid saying "Dassew" instead of "Dasso". Anyway no need to be fluent in French since the name Dassault is quite well known in aviation, isn't it? I should maybe consider to pronounce English names using French codes🤔. It might be hilarious ... For history: as shown at 1:11, the first jet of this business jet "family" was named "Mystère 20" since it was more or less an homothety (wings and tail-unit) of the "Mystère IV", a French fighter jet of the 60's. It has been renamed "Falcon 20" to make it easier to penetrate the US market and it worked. From then on all Dassault business jets are "Falcons" ... No hard feelings. Regards

[@frisk151]

"French Classic".. LOL... I've forgotten one of my favorite frenchies who like all her 3 intakes filled.. Funny.. Gotta say it.. But seriously not all that creative..

[@paraglidingSafety]

Pronounce daso Not dasu

[@stevegerber88]

Dassault is pronounced "duh sow" not "duh sue"

[@maiani82]

😂… Pronounced DAS-O

[@dmack1827]

I cringe every time he says "Dassoo".

[@CaptainReverendo]

Taylor Swift owns a pair of Falcons I believe. She could have any jet she wanted and she chose these 🎉

[@zenki4666]

The 8x is much better

[@bensmith7536]

It really is Das-soo, not Das-auw like Ive thought for over 30 years. Thanks Sky. Hah.

[@agreen778]

Ugh…it’s so not pronounced Dasoo

[@zgvip]

很不错的3引擎飞机和2引擎飞机对比视频，一直好奇它们相对的优缺点。