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
[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
[edit] Transportation
- Ford Falcon (disambiguation), an automobile produced by Ford
- Dennis Falcon, a bus model manufactured by Dennis Specialist Vehicles
- Falcon Shells, a British automobile 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] Entertainment
- 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
- Falcon (computer game), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
- Gretsch White Falcon, a legendary guitar.
- The Falcon (band), a Chicago punk rock band
- Lt. Falcon, a Green Beret character from the G.I. Joe series
- Falcon Entertainment, the parent corporation of a group of gay pornographic film studios
- Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
- Edward Falcon, a character in the Power Stone series of video games
- Falco Lombardi, a character in the Star Fox series of video games
- Falcon, a locomotive character, later renamed Sir Handel, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry
- Falcons (film) a 2002 film starring Keith Carradine
[edit] Sports
- Atlanta Falcons, an NFL (American) football 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
[edit] Other uses
- Falcón, a state in Venezuela
- Falcon, Colorado, a community in Colorado.
- The Falcon (law), an 1874 U. S. Supreme Court case.
- 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
- Falcon Living, a real estate brokerage in Chicago, Illinois
- 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
