Dassault Aviation: Dassault Aviation Unveils Falcon 5X, New Advanced-Technology, Long-Range Business Jet

Dassault  Aviation today unveiled its
biggest and most advanced Falcon jet. The Falcon 5X is a new-generation business
jet  with  new  a  flight  control  system,  new aerodynamics and other advanced
technologies, many pioneered in Dassault's military programs.

"The  Falcon 5X is the new benchmark for the creative use of advanced technology
in  business  aviation,"  said  Eric  Trappier,  Chairman  and  CEO  of Dassault
Aviation.  "Using  design  and  manufacturing  software and systems pioneered by
Dassault, we have been able to build a larger, more comfortable and more capable
aircraft  that is also more environmentally friendly and much more economical to
operate compared to other airplanes in its class."

"The  Falcon 5X represents  our biggest  investment since  the beginning  of the
Falcon  programs," said Trappier. "It demonstrates our commitment to maintaining
the  technology leadership that we have displayed in this market since our first
business jet flew fifty years ago."

Unveiled  in Las  Vegas at  the National  Business Aviation Association's annual
convention,  the  company  hailed  the  Falcon  5X as  an industry breakthrough,
offering  the largest cabin cross section  of any purpose-built business jet and
fuel efficiency as much as 50 percent better than competing aircraft.

The  Falcon  5X represents  an  important  addition  to the Falcon product line,
expanding  its offering  in the  large-cabin segment.  The new  jet has  a cabin
height  of  six  feet,  six  inches  (1.98  m),  an  important consideration for
passenger  comfort  on  flights  of  10 or  11 hours' duration. The 16-passenger
aircraft  has a range of 5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km), connecting Los Angeles
with  London, Sao  Paulo with  Chicago, Johannesburg  with Geneva  or Paris with
Beijing.  Functionality  and  modern  style  blend  in  the  cabin.  The company
conducted  extensive research into  new cabin technology  and styling techniques
that will greatly enhance passengers' sense of spaciousness and comfort.

The  new aircraft's digital flight control  system represents a major advance in
making  aircraft control more  precise, easier and  safer. The system integrates
all  moving control surfaces for the first time, including an additional control
surface  called  a  'flaperon',  that  allows  steep approaches at slow and safe
speeds.  It also  integrates nose  wheel steering  for safer  runway handling in
strong  crosswind conditions and on wet or slick runways. Dassault Aviation is a
leader in digital flight control technology having pioneered it on fighters four
decades  ago and  having introduced  the first  business jet with digital flight
controls, the Falcon 7X, in 2007.

Honeywell  will provide the 5X with a new  generation of the Falcon series' EASy
all-digital  cockpit, as well  as its most  advanced radar, capable of detecting
turbulence at greater distances than current models.

The  cockpit  will  feature  the  industry's  most  advanced  "head-up  display"
technology,  provided  by  Elbit  Systems.  The  new  HUD will combine "enhanced
vision"  and "synthetic vision"  for unsurpassed situational  awareness, even in
total  darkness, fog  or dense  haze. Enhanced  vision uses  infrared sensors to
display  terrain in  darkness and  reduced visibility.  Synthetic vision  uses a
global  terrain database for the same purpose.  In the 5X, they will be combined
for  the first time on the head-up display providing a high fidelity view of the
outside world even when actual visibility is zero.

The  aircraft will be powered by  new-generation Silvercrest engines from Safran
Snecma,  the  French-based  engine  maker  and  50-percent  partner with General
Electric in CFM, which builds the world's best selling jet engine, the CFM56.

"The  Silvercrest engine is 15 percent more fuel efficient than other engines in
its  power class; Emissions  are dramatically lower  than current standards, and
the  engine is remarkably  quiet," said Trappier.  "Dassault Aviation and Snecma
worked  closely to marry the aircraft and  the engine for optimum efficiency and
performance. The companies have a long history of close collaboration", Trappier
noted. Snecma provides the M88 engines for the supersonic Rafale fighter.

Both aircraft and engines will have the industry's most advanced real-time self-
diagnosis  onboard  maintenance  system.  These  computerized monitoring systems
report  service issues immediately to  ground-based service hubs, so maintenance
teams  can begin  to respond  while the  aircraft is  still in the air. Snecma's
ForeVision(TM)  health  monitoring  system,  which  equips  the Silvercrest, can
forecast  when maintenance will be required  several flights or even hundreds of
flight  hours in advance, making scheduling  easier and ensuring availability of
the aircraft when it is needed.

Falcon  5X airframe  structures  are  already  in production at several Dassault
sites  in France  and at  suppliers' plants.  New, more  automated manufacturing
technologies  and streamlined production  processes will reduce  parts count and
aircraft weight, and speed the assembly process.

To  be priced at about $45 million in 2013 dollars, the Falcon 5X is expected to
make  its first flight in the first quarter of 2015 and to achieve certification
before the end of 2016.


About Dassault Aviation
Dassault  Aviation is a  leading aerospace company  with a presence  in over 80
countries  across five continents. It produces the Rafale fighter jet as well as
the  complete line of Falcon. The company employs a workforce of over 11,000 and
has  assembly and  production plants  in both  France and  the United States and
service facilities around the globe. Since the rollout of the first Falcon 20 in
1963, over  2,250 Falcon jets  have been  delivered. The  family of  Falcon jets
currently  in production  includes the  tri-jets-the Falcon  900LX and the 7X-as
well as the twin-engine 2000LXS and Falcon 2000S.


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