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Stelio Frati designed the Falco in 1955 as a two-seat Italian sport aircraft. Wood and fabric construction, a tapered wing and direct mechanical controls form the airframe described by Echo Simulations.
Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Read more ↗The represented Sequoia configuration
Echo's rendition uses the 180 hp AEIO-360-B1E, a constant-speed Hartzell propeller and an inverted fuel system. It retains analogue instruments and direct mechanical controls. The product's published cruise and stall figures describe that rendition.
Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Read more ↗Meet Falco F8L
Stelio Frati designed the Falco in 1955 as a two-seat Italian sport aircraft. Wood and fabric construction, a tapered wing and direct mechanical controls form the airframe described by Echo Simulations.
Echo models the Sequoia configuration with a 180 hp Lycoming AEIO-360-B1E, constant-speed Hartzell propeller and inverted fuel system. An analogue cockpit accompanies that installation.
Falco F8L
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Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Falco F8L ↗Aircraft type designators
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History & design
From Italian production to American kits
The Falco first flew from Milan-Bresso on 15 June 1955. Production passed through Aviamilano, Aeromere and Laverda during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1979 to 2014, Sequoia reissued the design as a kit in Richmond, Virginia, with structural updates and higher-powered Lycoming installations.
Echo Simulations · Falco F8L ↗Brief; History; Specifications — Falco F8L, Sequoia 180 hp configuration
Systems & details
The represented Sequoia configuration
Echo's rendition uses the 180 hp AEIO-360-B1E, a constant-speed Hartzell propeller and an inverted fuel system. It retains analogue instruments and direct mechanical controls. The product's published cruise and stall figures describe that rendition.
A wooden tourer in Sequoia form
Echo describes a two-seat sport and touring aircraft with a tapered laminar wing and wood-and-fabric construction. The chosen Sequoia configuration places its 180 hp Lycoming and constant-speed propeller ahead of an analog cockpit. The published dimensions are an 8.00 m span and 6.53 m length. That combination belongs to this particular rendition; the Falco’s earlier production and later kit-built examples span different engines, equipment and individual builds.
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MSFS 2024Echo Simulations Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Released
Echo Simulations Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Released
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Falco F8LFalco F8L
Brief; History; Specifications — Falco F8L, Sequoia 180 hp configuration
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Developer documentation
Falco F8LEcho Simulations · Brief; History; Specifications — Falco F8L, Sequoia 180 hp configurationBuilt-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 2 profile choices
Echo Simulations Falco F8L
Echo Simulations · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2024
Stelio Frati's two-seat wooden sport aircraft, represented in a 180 hp Sequoia configuration.
Falco F8L
Free and Pro · Revision 1 · Partial review
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 12
Stelio Frati's two-seat wooden sport aircraft, represented in a 180 hp Sequoia configuration.
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