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Falco Odessanus
Falco may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Falco (musician) (1957–1998), an Austrian singer and musician * ''Falco'' (book series), historical novels by Lindsey Davies ** Marcus Didius Falco, protagonist of the book series * ''Falcó'' (novel), a 2016 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte * "Falco" (song), by Hitomi Shimatani * ''Falco'' (TV series) * Falco (Groove-On Fight character), a videogame character * Falco Lombardi, a videogame character from the ''Star Fox'' series * Falco Grice, a character from the anime series ''Attack on Titan'' Aviation * Fiat CR.42 Falco, Italian World War II biplane fighter aircraft * Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I, Italian World War II fighter aircraft * Selex ES Falco, an Italian tactical unmanned aerial vehicle * Sequoia Falco, an aerobatic aircraft People * Falco (surname), a list of people with the surname Falco or Falcó * Quintus Pompeius Falco (c. 70 – after 140), ancient Roman senator, general and governor of Britannia * Falco of Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco (musician)
Johann "Hans" Hölzel (; 19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco (from Falko Weißpflog), was an Austrian singer and musician. He had several international hits, including "Der Kommissar (song), Der Kommissar" (1981), "Rock Me Amadeus", "Vienna Calling", "Jeanny (song), Jeanny", "The Sound of Musik", "Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)", and posthumously released "Out of the Dark (song), Out of the Dark". "Rock Me Amadeus" reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts, ''Billboard'' charts in 1986, making Falco the only artist in history to score a number-one hit with a German language song in the United States. According to his estate, he has sold 20 million albums and 40 million singles, which makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of all time. Early life Johann Hölzel was born on 19 February 1957 to Maria (née Saurer), from Bad Tatzmannsdorf in Burgenland, a laundry branch manager, and Alois Hölzel, from Lower Austria, a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sequoia Falco
The Falco F8L is an Italy, Italian-designed lightweight 2-seater aerobatics, aerobatic aircraft.Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 251. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. Design and development The aircraft was designed by the renowned Italy, Italian designer Stelio FratiBayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 118. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X in 1955, with the prototype, powered by a Continental C-90 engine, flying for the first time on 15 June 1955. The prototype was soon re-engined with a Lycoming O-290-D2B, forming the basis for the initial production batch. It was originally built in Italy by Aviamilano then Aeromere and later Laverda.Munson, Kenneth; Taylor, John: ''Jane's Pocket Book Light Aircraft Second Edition'', pages 130-131. Jane's Publishing Company, 1982. The aircraft is single-engined, Propeller (aircraft), propeller driven and designed for priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco KC
Falco Kosárlabda Club, for sponsorship reasons named Falco Volvo Alpok Autó Szombathely, is a Hungarian professional basketball club based in Szombathely. The team play their home games at Arena Savaria, a multi-use complex, which was opened in 2006. History Beginning and uprising The club was created in 1980, when basketball fanatics György Gráczer and István Németh with the support of the local wood industry Falco started to organize meetings and trainings. In that year the club entered the county level championship. In 1987, Falco decided to invest more money into the club and the success was immediate. By winning the championship in the 1987/88 season they won promotion to the second division. In the next year they did surprisingly well, finishing on the top in the regular season with only two losses, but failed in the play-offs final. A season later there was nothing what could prevent the yellow-blacks to lift the trophy in the final, and with that, after 27 years Sz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco Electronics
Falco Electronics is a multinational Mexican electronics corporation founded in 1991, in Mérida, Yucatán, México Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar .... The company sells products under its own name and also acts as an ODM, OEM and ECM/EMS. Products and services Falco's main business activities are the design and manufacture of power magnetics, semiconductors and circuitboards. In addition the company designs and manufactures common mode chokes, current sensors, gate drives, power inductors, line transformers, THT inductors, watt hour meters, lighting systems, printed computer boards, mechanical assembly systems, and also provides plastic molding, metal stamping and electronic manufacturing, OEM design and testing services. Falco is a major supplier to internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco, Alabama
Falco, also spelled Falko, is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, Covington County, Alabama, United States. The community lies entirely within the Conecuh National Forest. Name The community's name is an acronym for the Florida-Alabama Land Company, which harvested timber in the area. History Falco was founded by members of the Florida-Alabama Land Company in 1903. The community was home to a large sawmill, the Falco Bank, Falcola Bottling Company, a 40-room hotel, a grist mill and general stores. A two-story railroad depot sat near the logging railroads, which connected to the Central of Georgia Railway, Central of Georgia and Louisville and Nashville Railroad, L&N lines. The town began to decline after a fire destroyed the saw mill in 1925. The mill was then moved to Willow, Florida. A post office operated under the name Falco from 1903 to 1955. Falco was photographed by John Collier Jr., who was working for the Farm Security Adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco (bird)
Falcons () are birds of prey in the genus ''Falco'', which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow bird wing, wings are called hobby (bird), hobbies, and some that hover (behaviour)#Wind hoverers, hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica, though closely related raptors did occur there in the Eocene. Adult falcons have thin, tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and change direction rapidly. Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers, which make their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a wikt:broadwing, broadwing. This makes flying easier while still learning the aerial skills required to be effective hunters like the adults. The falcons are the largest genus in the Falconinae subfamily of Falconidae, which also includes two other subfamilies comprising caracara (subfamily), caracaras and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Falkous
Andrew "Falco" Falkous (born 5 April 1975) is a British musician best known for being the founding member/frontman for the Cardiff-based punk rock outfit Mclusky, current lead singer/guitarist of the band Future of the Left and the sole member of Christian Fitness. Music career Falco's professional musical career began in 1996 with the band Best. After a few line-up changes and release of a three-track single ''Huwuno'' on London-based label Seriously Groovy, Best changed its name to Mclusky in 1999. The line-up consisted of Falco fronting the band, serving as its main songwriter along with Mat Harding on drums and Jon Chapple on bass/backing vocals. Falco and Mclusky released its first album '' My Pain and Sadness is More Sad and Painful Than Yours'' in 2000 on the Fuzzbox imprint before drawing international attention with their critically praised second album '' Mclusky Do Dallas'' in 2002. Harding left the group in 2003 with Falco telling The Telegraph "It was due to diff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberto Airaudi
Oberto Airaudi (29 May 1950 – 24 June 2013) was an Italian cultist, who founded the Federation of Damanhur. Airaudi also went by the name of Falco (Hawk), based on the Damanhur practice of adopting animal names. Biography He was born in Balangero, near Turin, Italy. In 1975, Airaudi and a group of about 25 other people founded the Federation of Damanhur, a New Age New Age is a range of Spirituality, spiritual or Religion, religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western world, Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclecticism, eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise d ... commune and eco-village. Beginning in 1978, Airaudi directed construction of the underground facility the Temples of Humankind. Initially in secret, the Temples became public knowledge in 1992, when a former member sued to regain his possessions from the group. Prior to founding the community, he had worked as an insurance agent. Airaudi died in the Damanhur co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco Of Maastricht
Saint Falco, sometimes: Falco of Maastricht or of Tongeren, (died 512) was according to tradition bishop of Maastricht from 495 until 512. He is also venerated as a Roman Catholic saint. In Medieval hagiography he is hardly noted. Yet, Falco is the first bishop of Maastricht, after Servatius, who is securely documented. He is mentioned in an undated letter sent by Saint Remigius, in which Remigius complains about Falco usurping certain rights in Mouzon. He allegedly attended the Council of Auvergne (535) and the Fifth Council of Orléans The Fifth Council of Orléans (28 October 549) assembled nine archbishops and forty-one bishops. Sacerdos of Lyon presided over this council. The presence of these bishops indicates both the wide spread of Christianity in Gaul by the sixth century ....Christian Settipani, ''Les ancêtres de Charlemagne'' (1989) His feast day is February 20, which he shares with Eucharius I, traditionally his predecessor as bishop of Maastricht. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Pompeius Falco
Quintus Pompeius Falco (c. 70after 140 AD) was a Roman senator and general of the early 2nd century AD. He was governor of several provinces, most notably Roman Britain, where he hosted a visit to the province by the Emperor Hadrian in the last year. Falco achieved the rank of suffect consul for the '' nundinium'' of September to December 108 with Marcus Titius Lustricus Bruttianus as his colleague. Name His complete name was Quintus Roscius Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullius Pius Julius Eurycles Herculanus Pompeius Falco, an example of polyonymy. Werner Eck has shown that Falco was the son of Sextus Pompeius Falco and Clodia P.f. Falconilla who came from Sicily, as well as identifying a brother, Quintus Pompeius Pr scus The earliest inscriptions to mention him, dated to his governorship of Lower Moesia (115-118), use the name Quintus Roscius Murena Coelius Pompeius Falco, indicating that he was adopted (''condicio nominis ferendi'') by another Senator in hopes of pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falco (surname)
Falco or Falcó is the surname of: * Falco (musician) Johann "Hans" Hölzel (; 19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco (from Falko Weißpflog), was an Austrian singer and musician. He had several international hits, including "Der Kommissar (song), Der Kommiss ... (1957–1998), Austrian singer and musician * Albert Falco (1927–2012), diving companion of Jacques Cousteau, chief diver and later captain of the RV ''Calypso'' * Carlos Falcó, 5th Marquess of Griñón (1937–2020), Spanish noble * Charles M. Falco (born 1948), American experimental physicist * Domenico Falco (born 1985), Italian footballer * Edie Falco (born 1963), American actress * Federico Falco (table tennis) (born 1994), Italian para table tennis player * Filippo Falco (born 1992), Italian footballer * Hubert Falco (born 1947), French politician * Louis Falco (1942–1993), American dancer and choreographer * Luis Falcó (1949–2007), Argentine physician and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selex ES Falco
The Falco (English language, English: hawk) is a tactical unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed and produced by Selex ES (now Leonardo S.p.A., Leonardo formerly Leonardo-Finmeccanica and Finmeccanica, originally by Galileo Avionica of Italy). The UAV is designed to be a medium-altitude, medium-endurance surveillance platform capable of carrying a range of payloads, including several types of high-resolution sensors. A larger variant, the Falco EVO, is capable of carrying larger payloads is also available. Neither system is designed to carry weapons, The launch customer, Pakistan, reportedly wanted the Falco armed, a request that Italy rejected. Development * The Falco UAV's maiden flight took place in December 2003 and Galileo Avionica had completed platform qualification in late October 2004. Over 40 hours of flight-testing had been completed by then at the Salto di Quirra test range in Sardinia. Validation of flight controls had been completed in Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
