Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 04:58, 20 November 2024

A falcon is a small to medium-sized bird of prey.

Falcon may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

• Millennium Falcon, a fictional spaceship from the Star Wars films
• The Falcon (film), or Banović Strahinja, a 1981 Yugoslavian-German adventure 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
• Falcón (TV series), a 2012 television series produced by Sky Atlantic and based on the Robert Wilson novels

Fictional characters

• Falcon (comics), a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe
• The Falcon (fictional detective), a detective created by Michael Arlen in 1940
• The Falcon (radio series), a radio drama featuring the detective created by Drexel Drake in 1936
• Falcon (G.I. Joe), 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
• Falcon from Stuart Little 2
• Blue Falcon, a superhero in the American animated television series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
• Captain Falcon, a racer in the F-Zero video game series
• Edward Falcon, a character in the Power Stone series of video games

Music

• An operatic voice type first exemplified by Cornélie Falcon
• Falcon Records (disambiguation)
• 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
• Falcon (singer) (born 1984), stage name of Amanda Lindsey Cook

Video games

• Falcon (video game series), a series of combat flight simulator computer games
• 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

Businesses

• Bryggeri AB Falken, a Swedish brewery which sold beer under the name Falcon
• Falcon, Battersea, a public house (pub) in Battersea, London, England
• The Falcon, Camden, a public house in Camden, London, England
• The Falcon, Chester, a public house in Chester, England
• The Falcon, York, a public house in York, England

Computing

• Atari Falcon, Atari's last released general-use computer
• Falcon (storage engine), a MySQL storage engine
• Falcon (video game), a flight simulator video game
• 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)
• Falcon, a hardware revision of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console
• Falcon (Signature), “Fast Fourier lattice-based compact signatures over NTRU”, a digital signature scheme

Military

• AIM-4 Falcon, first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States 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
• Curtiss Falcon a post-World War I observation biplane
• General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, a fighter aircraft
• HMS Falcon, the name of 22 ships of the Royal Navy
  • RAF Hal Far, an airfield on Malta called HMS Falcon while it was a Royal Navy base
• USS Falcon, the name of four ships of the United States Navy
• DARPA Falcon Project, a two-part joint project between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the United States Air Force
• Falcon Air Force Base, former name of Schriever Space Force Base, near Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
• Joint Security Station Falcon, a former United States military forward operating base in Iraq
• Falcon Turret, a Jordanian main battle tank turret
• ZVI Falcon, a sniper rifle

People

• Falcon (surname)
• Falcon Heene, the young boy involved in the balloon boy hoax of 2009
• Falcon Stuart (1941–2002), British photographer, retailer, filmmaker, manager and music producer

Places

United States

• Falcon, Colorado, an unincorporated community
• Falcon, Kentucky
• Falcon, Mississippi
• Falcon, North Carolina
• Falcon, Tennessee
• Falcon Dam, Texas
• Falcon Village, Texas

Elsewhere

• 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

Schools

• Falcon College, an all-boys independent boarding school in Esigodini, Zimbabwe
• Falcon High School, Falcon, Colorado, United States

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 (Houston, Texas)
• Flowery Branch High School

Sports

Teams

• Atlanta Falcons, an American National Football League team
• Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team
• Newcastle Falcons, a rugby union team based in Newcastle, England
• 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
• Sokół Nisko, literally "Falcon Nisko" in Polish
• 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 union team that plays in the North America 4 tournament
• West Perth Football Club, West Perth WAFL team
• Winnipeg Falcons, an amateur ice hockey team which, representing Canada, won the first ever Olympic gold medal in ice hockey

Fields

• Falcon Field (Corinth, Texas), a baseball field
• Falcon Baseball Field, in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Transport

Aviation

• Buckeye Falcon, an American powered parachute design
• Dassault Falcon, a family of business jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation
• Dassault Falcon 900, a French-built corporate trijet aircraft made by Dassault Aviation
• 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
• Hansjörg Streifeneder Falcon, a German sailplane
• Miles Falcon, a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane
• Rolls-Royce Falcon, a World War I-era aircraft engine
• Wills Wing Falcon, an American hang glider design
• Falcon Field (Arizona), an airport
• Atlanta Regional Airport, also known as Falcon Field, a public use airport in Fayette County, Georgia, United States

Maritime

• Falcon, a ship of the Third Supply fleet to Virginia colony in 1609
• Falcon, a small sailing vessel used by Edward Frederick Knight to explore the Baltic
• SS Falcon, a steamship built in 1945 as Sasbeck, and named Falcon 1968–69.

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 Shells, a British automobile manufacturer
• Falcon Motorsports, an American manufacturer of high performance automobiles
• Chrysler Falcon, a concept sports car made by Chrysler
• Various cars produced by Ford.
  • 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 (North America), a compact car produced by Ford Motor Company
  • Ford Falcon van, a passenger van produced by the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s

Rocketry and space

• Falcon 1, a SpaceX launch vehicle
• Falcon 5, a proposed partially reusable launch vehicle designed by SpaceX
• Falcon 9, a partially reusable launch vehicle produced by SpaceX
• Falcon Heavy, a partially reusable launch vehicle produced by SpaceX
• "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

Other uses

• Operation FALCON, several dragnets for fugitives organized by the United States Marshals Service
• Typhoon Falcon (disambiguation)
• FALCON (cable system), a submarine communications cable connecting several countries in the Persian Gulf and India
• Falcon (Duinrell), a Gerstlauer Eurofighter model roller coaster at Duinrell amusement park
• Corpus Christi Carol, a medieval song sometimes called the "Falcon Carol"

See also

• Falcón (disambiguation)
• Falkon, a web browser
• Falcon Heights (disambiguation)
• Falcone (disambiguation)
• Falcones (disambiguation)
• Falcons (disambiguation)
• Flacon
• Falken Tires, a subsidiary of Sumitomo
• Pakistan national cricket team, nicknamed the "Shaheens" in Urdu, meaning the "Falcons"
• All pages with titles beginning with Falcon
• All pages with titles containing Falcon

• Disambiguation pages
• Place name disambiguation pages
• Educational institution disambiguation pages