Falcon (disambiguation)
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A falcon is a bird of prey.
Falcon may also refer to:
[edit] Aircraft
- F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
- Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
- Rolls-Royce Falcon, a World War I era aircraft engine used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
- Force Application and Launch from Continental United States (FALCON), a spaceplane capable of missile launch in development by Lockheed Martin
- Curtiss O-1 Falcon a post-World War I Observation biplane
[edit] Rocketry
- Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9, space launch vehicles made by SpaceX
- AIM-4 Falcon, the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the US Air Force
- AIM-26 Falcon, a U.S. nuclear capable air-to-air missile
- AGM-76 Falcon, an experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile
- Falcon, the callsign of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module
[edit] Transportation
- Ford Falcon, an automobile produced by Ford
- Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
- Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
- Falcon Cycles, a Biritish bicycle manufacturer
- British Rail Class 53 Falcon, a class of lightweight electric-diesel locomotives made in 1961
- Falcon, a South Devon Railway Comet class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive involved in a crash
[edit] Airlines
- Falcon Air, a defunct airline from Sweden
- Falcon Air Express, a defunct airline from Miami, USA
- FALCON, the callsign for Falcon Air
- Falcon Air (Slovenia, an airline from Slovenia
- Falcon Express Cargo Airlines, an airline from the United Arab Emirates
- Falcon Air (Michigan), an air operator from Flint, Michigan
- Falcon Airline, an airline from Nigeria
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Literature
- Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero
- The Falcon (literary character), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940; later featured in a series of motion pictures
- Lt. Falcon, a Green Beret character from the G.I. Joe series
- Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
[edit] Film
- Falcons (film), a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
- The Falcon and the Snowman, a 1985 film starring Sean Penn
- Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios
[edit] Music
- an operatic Voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon
- Falcon Records, a record label
- The Falcons, an american rhythm and blues band in the 50s
- Christian "Falcon" Falk, a Swedish Musician and Producer
- Gretsch White Falcon, a legendary guitar.
- The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band
[edit] Video Games
- Falcon (computer game), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
- Edward Falcon, a character in the Power Stone series of video games
- Falco Lombardi, a character in the Star Fox series of video games
- Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
[edit] Sports
- Atlanta Falcons, an NFL (American) football team
- Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
- West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
- Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team who play in the Currie Cup
- Newcastle Falcons, a rugby team based in Newcastle, England
- The New Zealand national Australian rules football team, called the Falcons
- Falcon (sport), a humorous term for being hit on the head by the ball
- Polish Falcons of America, a Polish fraternal and sporting organization
- USA Falcons, a rugby team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
- Bowling Green Falcons, an American university's athletic teams
- St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based out of St. Catharines, Ontario
- United States Air Force Academy Falcons, the name for all athletic teams represented by the school
- American Cooperative School of Tunis Falcons, the high school mascot and name for all athletic teams represented by the school
[edit] Geography
- Falcón, a state in Venezuela
- Falcon, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah
- United States
- Falcon, Colorado
- Falcon, Mississippi
- Falcon Heights, Texas
- Falcon Mesa, Texas
- Falcon Village, Texas
- New Falcon, Texas
[edit] Other uses
- FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
- Atari Falcon, Atari's last released general-use computer
- Christopher John Boyce, nicknamed Falcon, an American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy
- Bryggeri AB Falken, a brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden
- The Millennium Falcon, Han Solo's spaceship in the Star Wars universe
- The International Falcon Movement IFM-SEI a children and young peoples Socialist Education International movement
- Falcon (storage engine), a MySQL storage engine
- HNC Falcon, a fraud-detection system for credit or debit card transactions, now owned by Fair Isaac
[edit] See also
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