Dassault FalconEye: A Head-Up Leap Forward In Situational Awareness

Credit: Dassault, Hugo Kerr/Paper & Plane
The weather conditions appeared nearly ideal for an evaluation of Dassault’s new FalconEye combined vision system at dusk on the day we flew Dassault’s Falcon 8X flight test aircraft. As we belted in the left seat on the ramp of its research and development facility at Istres-Le Tubé Air Base (LFMI)...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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