Thu, Apr 13, 2006
Completes Cold Weather Testing
Representatives with Dassault Falcon tell ANN that Falcon 7X s/n
02 (F-WTDA) recently completed five days of cold soak trials at
Iqaluit and Resolute Bay in northern Canada. Temperatures during
the tests reached as low as -33 C during the campaign that ran from
April 6 to April 10. All aircraft systems performed as
designed.
"Despite the brutal weather conditions that included a blizzard
during the third day of testing, the Falcon 7X performed very
well," said Bill Kerherve, Senior Chief Test Pilot for Dassault
Aviation. "We had no problems in starting or warming the aircraft.
All systems and avionics came online very quickly after start-up.
Performance of the Pratt and Whitney Canada 307A engines was
excellent."
The aircraft performed high-speed taxi and aborted take-off
tests on the gravel and packed ice runway and made several landings
in 20+ knot crosswind conditions. The tests also proved aircraft
systems functionality under extreme weather conditions including
all avionics installed on the EASy flight deck, electrical,
hydraulic and fly-bywire.
Iqaluit is a popular place for airplane manufacturers to test
the cold-weather durability of their newest aircraft. In February,
Airbus flew the A380 there for similar
cold-soak testing.
To date, the Falcon 7X test program has accumulated 540 flight
test hours over 172 flights. The entire flight test program will
last approximately 1200 hours. Final certification is expected in
early 2007 with deliveries starting shortly after. Over 80 copies
of the world’s first purpose built fly-by-wire business jet
have been sold making it the most popular Falcon ever at this point
in the launch of a new aircraft.
Dassault Falcon Jet Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Dassault Aviation, and is responsible for selling and supporting
Falcon business jets throughout North America, South America, and
the Pacific Rim countries of Asia --including China. Since the
rollout of the first Falcon 20 in 1963, over 1800 Falcon jets have
been sold to more than 65 countries worldwide.
The family of Falcon jets currently in production includes four
tri-jets -- the Falcon 50EX, 900DX, 900EX EASy, and the new 7X --
as well as the twin-engine Falcon 2000, Falcon 2000DX and Falcon
2000EX EASy.
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