Falcon (disambiguation)

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A falcon is a bird of prey.

Falcon may also refer to:

People

• Falcon (surname)
• Cornélie Falcon, operatic soprano
• Falcon Heene, the young boy involved in the balloon boy hoax of 2009
• Christopher John Boyce, nicknamed "the Falcon", an American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy
• Christian Falk, nicknamed "Falcon", a Swedish musician and producer

Transport

Aviation

• Buckeye Falcon, an American powered parachute design
• Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane
• DARPA Falcon Project, an unmanned spaceplane capable of hypersonic speeds
• Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
• F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
• Falcon Air, a defunct Swedish airline
• Falcon Air Express, a defunct airline based in Miami, Florida
• Falcon Express Cargo Airlines, an airline based in the United Arab Emirates
• Rolls-Royce Falcon, a World War I era aircraft engine used in the Bristol F.2 Fighter
• Miles Falcon, a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane
• AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force

Maritime

• HMS Falcon, the name of 22 ships of the Royal Navy
• SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.
• USS Falcon, the name of four ships of the United States Navy

Rail

• 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

Road

• Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
• Falcon Cycles, a British bicycle manufacturer
• Falcon-Knight, a brand of automobile produced between 1927 and 1928 by the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio
• Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
• Ford Falcon (Argentina), a compact car built by the Ford Motor Company of Argentina
• Ford Falcon (Australia), a full-size car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company of Australia
• Ford Falcon (Americas), a compact car produced by Ford Motor Company
• Ford Falcon van, a passenger van produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s

• Falken Tires, a subsidiary of Sumitomo

Arma

• Falcon Turret, main battle tank turret

Rocketry and space

• 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
• AIM-47 Falcon, a U.S. long-range air-to-air missile
• AGM-76 Falcon, an experimental US high speed nuclear strike air-to-surface missile
• The Falcon (rocket family) by SpaceX:
  • Falcon 1
  • Falcon 5 (proposed; never built)
  • Falcon 9
  • Falcon Heavy
• Falcon, the callsign of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module
• Viper Falcon, a U.S. sounding rocket
• The Falcon Project, a U.K. and U.S. rocket company by Daniel Jubb

Culture

Film

• Millennium Falcon, a fictional spaceship from the Star Wars films
• Falcons, a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
• Banović Strahinja (film), English title The Falcon
• Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios
  • Falcon Studios, a large company producing gay pornography, based in San Francisco
• Falcón, a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels

Fictional characters

• Falcon (Transformers)
• Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero
• The Falcon (fictional character), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
  • The Falcon (radio), a radio drama featuring the literary crime fighting detective by Michael Arlen
• Lt. Falcon, a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry

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 1950s
• The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band
• Falcon (album), by British alternative rock band The Courteeners

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
• Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
• Novint Falcon, a USB haptic controller designed to replace the mouse in video games and other applications
• Falcon, a motherboard formerly included in all Xbox 360 console models
• Falcon, name of the Final Fantasy VI another airship

Sports

• Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
• Basketballklubben Falcon, a basket team based in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Falcon (sport), a humorous term for being hit on the head by the ball
• Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team
• Newcastle Falcons, a rugby team based in Newcastle, England
• The New Zealand national Australian rules football team, called the Falcons
• NIST International School Falcons, the sports teams of NIST International School in Bangkok, Thailand
• Polish Falcons of America, a Polish fraternal and sporting organization
• Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
• St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based in St. Catharines, Ontario
• USA Falcons, a rugby team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
• West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team

School mascots

• American Cooperative School of Tunis
• Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green University
• United States Air Force Academy
• Aplington-Parkersburg High School
• Clear Lake High School

Places

United States

• Falcon, Colorado
• Falcon, Kentucky
• Falcon, Mississippi
• Falcon Dam, Texas
• Falcon Village, Texas
• New Falcon, Texas

Other

• Falcon, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah, Australia
• Falcon Lake (disambiguation), various bodies of water in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
• Falkenfelsen, or Falcon Rock, a granite formation in Germany

Computing

• Atari Falcon, Atari's last released general-use computer
• Falcon (storage engine), a MySQL storage engine
• Falcon (programming language), a multi-paradigm typeless programming language
• Falcon Northwest, a high-end computer manufacturer in the US, specialising in gaming PCs
• A nickname for a PDP-11 model, the SBC 11/21 (boardname KXT11)

In business

• FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
• Bryggeri AB Falken, a Swedish brewery which sold beer under the name Falcon
• Falcon, a fraud-detection system for credit or debit card transactions, owned by FICO
• The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England

Other uses

• RAF Hal Far, an airfield on Malta known as HMS Falcon while a Royal Navy base
• Operation FALCON, several dragnets for fugitives organized by the United States Marshals Service
• Typhoon Falcon (disambiguation)

See also

• Falcón (disambiguation)
• Falco (disambiguation)
• Falcone (disambiguation)
• Falconer (disambiguation)
• all pages beginning with "Falcon"

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