Falcon

For Falcon as a surname, see Falcon (surname). For all pages beginning with "Falcon," see Special:PrefixIndex/Falcon

A falcon is a bird of prey.

Falcon may also refer to:

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
• DARPA Falcon Project (Force Application and Launch from Continental United States or FALCON), a proposed unmanned spaceplane capable of hypersonic speeds
• Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane

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
• 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
• Falcon, the callsign of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module

Transportation

• Ford Falcon, a car nameplate applied to several vehicles worldwide
• Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
• Falcon Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
• Falcon Cycles, a British 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
• SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.

Airlines

• 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

Entertainment

Film

• Falcons (film), a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
• 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
• Falcon (Transformers), a fictional character
• The Millenium Falcon from Star Wars
• Banović Strahinja (film), English title The Falcon

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

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 Falk Christian "Falcon" Falk, a Swedish musician and producer
• The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band

Radio

• The Falcon (radio), a radio drama featuring the literary crime fighting detective by Michael Arlen

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
• 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

Sports

• Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
• Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team
• West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
• 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
• 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
• St. Catharines Falcons Jr. B, a Junior "B" hockey team based in St. Catharines, Ontario

School mascots

• American Cooperative School of Tunis
• Bowling Green Falcons of Bowling Green University
• United States Air Force Academy

Geography

Australia

• Falcon, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah

United States

• Falcon, Colorado
• Falcon, Kentucky
• Falcon, Mississippi
• Falcon Heights, Texas
• Falcon Mesa, Texas
• Falcon Village, Texas
• New Falcon, Texas

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

Other uses

• FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
• Christopher John Boyce, nicknamed Falcon, an American traitor and walk-in Soviet spy
• 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
• Falkenfelsen, or Falcon Rock, a granite formation in Germany

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See also

• Falcón (disambiguation)
• Falco (disambiguation)
• Falcone (disambiguation)
• Falconer (disambiguation)

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