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Newest Falcon:

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Alex.
 
And so dies the Westwind

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Alex.
If you reorder the pics this could also be a compilation of how Westwinds were made. I always thought there was a hangar full of random parts of different airplanes. Someone got drunk and decided to start bolting parts together. Woke up the next morning with a hangover and a Westwind.
 
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Bob D Duck got it right:
It's been a few years (ok...15 years) since I've hiked it, but that's the top of Mount Washington.

On a bucolic summer day. Winter shots look like sno-cones. Considered the worst weather on earth. Buildings have bunk rooms for bad weather marooning.

TV stations have choices: put a short antenna on a tall mountain, or a very tall antenna on a flat plain. Last one I built was 1,200 feet to the bottom of a 44 foot antenna, and cost $1.4M. After we moved the antelope off the Kansas construction site. No discouraging words on that range!
 
Newest Falcon:

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Alex.

Falcon 50 is one of the all time beautiful aeronautic shapes. Probably my favorite corporate bird based on aesthetics alone. I'm sure the 900 and 7X do everything better, but the 50 just looks the most elegant of all. I'd really love to fly one someday.
 
There has only been one Falcon 50 lost, and it was shot down from what I understand.

Yep during the conflict between Tutsis and Hutus.

But they didn`t really built so many of them, a lot ended up for govt use (sitting around). When I was in the swiss air force that`s what they used, or at least were supposed to use to fly govt people around. Honestly I ever only saw it flying once. I think there are a lot of low timer around payed with tax money or US Aid.
 
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