Dassault Aviation late last month revealed more information about its all-new airplane, which was code-named FNX when announced at the Paris Air Show in June. The French manufacturer’s contender in the ultra-long-range business jet market now has an official name–the Falcon 7X. Dassault said the airplane’s four-crew, eight-passenger 5,700-nm IFR range is optimum because it “delivers the major U.S. West Coast cities when going west from Paris, or Tokyo going east from Paris. From the U.S. West Coast, it gives you Tokyo going west and all of Europe going east.”
The key to the Falcon 7X’s range, its Mach 0.90 Mmo and its 370-kt Vmo is an “optimized high-transonic wing design with a double-digit improvement in L/D over present-day Falcon wings.” Dassault said that most flights will be able to be conducted at Mach 0.85 and above. The new wing will have a higher aspect ratio and more sweepback than current Falcon wings, allowing more efficient high-speed cruise performance.
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