Wow, Paul, thank you for that video. Best factory tour I have ever taken. Kudos to all the Diamond reps who shared their expertise. My positive impression of Diamond went through the roof after watching that video. My favorite was that guy Jeff Smallwood. He made me feel confident to put my entire family aboard one of “his” planes. Actually, I’d still want a chute in my next plane, but Diamond sure impressed me with their “process” pronounced in their Canadian way.

@billr8667

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better.

@MAGApepe

4 жыл бұрын

a chute is totally useless and meaningless,,, its only meant to sucker ppl into buying them,,,a descent rate under a chute is twice the rate of a diamond under full stall,,, plus it lands flat as a pancake causing more injuries than having a 40-50 kt forward component landing under stall without a chute

@quinncide

4 жыл бұрын

M - You’re either ignorant, misinformed or deliberately misinforming others. Either way your profile pic checks out.

@MAGApepe

4 жыл бұрын

@@quinncide are you a pilot ? ,, prove me wrong or are lame insults all you can do

@quinncide

4 жыл бұрын

M - I *am* actually a pilot, 25 years now. And no, I’m not going to waste any more time on you. Adios.

All the knowledge and materials involved At low volume tells one why an airplane is so expensive😉

@nunyabidness3075

4 жыл бұрын

B. E. Russell, Ding, ding, ding!

@namewitheld

3 жыл бұрын

They're expensive because of lawyers and bad government. Don't kid yourself.

@BobABooey.

3 жыл бұрын

Its the time involved to get an aircraft certificated.

@Rehmaan

3 жыл бұрын

Engine and certification kid

I live 40 minutes from the Diamond plant in London, Ontario and always wanted to see inside it. Now I have.

@NETBotic

4 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine life without youtube lol.

@rolandocrisostomo2003

4 жыл бұрын

I live 5 minutes away from a prison, I don't feel the same way.

I absolutely loved the "How to build a wing" with all its annotations! It was so much fun to watch

One of the most interesting videos from this channel. Thank you.

This is a fantastic walkthrough. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us and thanks to Diamond for allowing us to see so much behind the scenes.

That was a spectacular video! So interesting to see a plane made, especially a composite one.

Paul is my favorite reporter in aviation, always interesting, informative, and of course entertaining. Thanks

@mrbillgoode

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, everything about that sweater and safety glasses screams old hippie aviation enthusiast but I also kept wondering what brand of dentures he's wearing. It looks very well tucked and hidden. I also think there's a market opportunity in the geriatric class for stylish dentures. What could be more awesome than DA40 engraved dentures or a Lycoming swoosh.

Lovely aircraft....thanks Paul and AV web team.

I was lucky enough to have flown the DA20, DA40 and DA42 during my training and always enjoyed flying them, so great watching a video on how they're built.

Another Excellent Production Paul !! Great Job !!!

I'm about to start my MEI training in a DA-42NG. Dig it! Thanks for the vid!

Hey Sally! Looking good in the video!! Keep those Harnesses coming!! 👍😊

That Was A Great Presentation!

Great episode thanks! What an amazing history the factory has! Nicely done graphics! They look like they are building bix Airfix planes! I'm not a flyer but now I'm convinced that if I ever wanted a plane it would be from Diamond!

A very nice presentation Paul. I am so delighted with my DA62 - just brilliant, best in class and, above all, SAFE !!

Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing!

I weekly fly those aircrafts and it was amazing vid to actually look how those composite processes were done on these aircrafts. Now I know a fun fact that the nose gear is not completely centered

All of these people were proper presenters, well executed plant tour

Awesome video! Really get to understand how Diamond has been so successful.

Really well done video! Super impressed.

Great video. Very informative and nicely put together.

AVweb hits it out of the park with this show!

Love the channel , specially to see how its made. Wonderful vid.

The comments at the bottom left of the blueprint part were great! Lol 😂 Great video, awesome content!

A wonderful factory. It is the same backward as glider. I am currently considering purchasing a DA62. It was very helpful.

Cool Vid, and hello from Production at Diamond Austria ✈️♦️♥️🍺

That was fascinating thanks for posting this.

Great review and tour Paul! I’ve got around 100 hours in a da40 and it’s a wonderful airplane to fly. My short list also includes a da62 (maybe one day).

Thanks, Paul, for coming up to Ontario for this video. Your Canadian fans appreciate it. :-)

Top-notch animation and graphics.

Is very amazing, see these process of fabrication of Diamond.

Thanks for the video. Very resourceful🙏

After seeing how much scrutiny and fine attention to detail goes into these airplanes, I begin to appreciate why they cost a million bucks.

Very interesting report from the factory

This is fantastic... Thanks diamond

Out standing videos 👍👍👍😊 thanks for the info and the idea to building these are great 👍👍 take care stay safe down there 👍 everyone.

You make awesome videos. Well done!

Great vid, more like this please!

This is quite interesting. It is good to see the quality control checks that are involved. Composites are light weight but there should be testing in place to ensure the quality of the manufacturing process.

You think all of the people watching this won't notice 3:43? . Look at the lower left. 🤣🤣🤣 . I love it though. Very informative, and Diamond makes good aircraft.

@hannesaltenfelder4302

4 жыл бұрын

Smart way to argue with the boss. Lol.

@Weitian0828

4 жыл бұрын

Smart way indeed! Lol

@dalecomer5951

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was poorly done. The main reason I watched this video was to learn about composite construction. The video just kinda skips thru it.

Thanks, excellent show

Awesome as usual great work I enjoy your videos! And hummer in other places.

such an amazing video. thanks a lot

That animation tho! Love it. And I want one of those fiber impregnating machines!

@quinncide

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently the animator didn’t love making it though! 3:43

Awesome animations, really simplifies the understanding of the whole process. Great video overall, thank you for posting this.

Fantastic airplanes, I flew them for 20 years, hopefully this company will be more profitable in future.

@MisFakapek

2 жыл бұрын

Looking at their production systems? They will be eaten alive with so many inefficiencies. They were acquired by Chinese company back in 2017, this video was done in 2020 so I'm assuming that things started to change there already.

Thank you Paul I love your videos and I hope one day you will get that red da62

Wow , thx for the tour

Excellent video Paul. I really enjoyed the editing, hidden humor, visual aids, and process information. In particular, it was great to learn about the anti-static chemical they spray on the wings during the paint process. That , and how they test for PASS/FAIL of that static electricity wicking system. I always thought they must have had some kind of metallic mesh woven into the composite, or something. Learning about the avionics wiring and test equipment was also very interesting. Keep up the good work ! If I could choose the next topic, I would select cockpit window technology. How has the testing process ( chicken cannons ) , materials, and construction of the forward windows evolved over the years? Can they withstand bird strikes any better ?? Are they stronger and lighter ? Is it all about the same as of a particular date ? Curious minds want to know......:)

How I would love to own one of those beautiful aircraft..

I really enjoyed that, thanks

Great work!

That was plain awesome very interesting

Wow, that wire stripping machine is straight from heaven.

Hi, AVweb! I'm not a pilot, but I enjoy watching your videos! Do a review of the Flaris LAR01 - those single jets are so cool!

I learned to fly in a 1998 DA20. Still one of the most fun, nimble planes I have flown.

Wow, I really like this one

hey, nice video, and I can see many people I worked with in 2016-2017, was exhausting but good then, best regards from Germany

GREAT coverage of the process... Can you imagine that detail in the Ford Factory making B-24s?

You've got the best job in the world.

12:30..... measuring efficiency is not about keeping quality consistent or at a high level. It is about pushing the employees to work as fast as they can with as few mistakes as possible. Often times that leads to a lower quality product being pushed out the door because people are watching the "efficiency clock".

@davidGrainger

3 жыл бұрын

placement of thick orange wire in front of computer monitor seen at 13:07 - not so efficient.

I hit subscribe because of this video. Amazing work!

Interesting they put static wicks on these. I have a pipistrel and it is all composite, no wicks and no issues with static buildup. Nice looking factory, great video.

Now that was awesom

DA-62 is my dream airplane.

I figured out who Paul reminds me of. It’s Lt. Dangle from Reno 911. I can’t stop thinking about this now. You’re welcome.

cool no vacuum infusion, just vac bagging or prepreg. I love that idea. so simple yet elegant. that vac bagging is for consolidation only so it so simple

That's what's my lovely works .... creative

great video!!!!!!!!!

You can see why some manufacturers prefer metal. Composite manufacturing looks very involved to me yet guess modern performance expectation demands its use. I never knew there was a machine that loaded resin onto fibre sheet on demand and just thought they bought it in pre-preged and kept it in a fridge. What was most noticeable to me was the lack of robots which makes a nice change to see in an advanced manufacturing facility.

The DA40 is a really great airplane to fly.

I have seen these aircraft in Vancouver and thought they looked somewhat fragile with the thin fuselage but I am definitely mistaken after watching this video. What an impressive airplane.

@mitchalwaggoner1648

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful craft.

@mattj65816

4 жыл бұрын

Touch one and compare the feel to that of a legacy aircraft (Cessna, Piper, etc.) The feel is noticeably sturdier. It feels like one, single, solid object.

@nunyabidness3075

4 жыл бұрын

They are many times stronger than aluminum monocoque craft like Cessna and Beech. I spoke to a retired pilot who was hit from above on final approach and dropped from 400 ft to crash. He had a sore wrist because he broke the stick (it’s designed to break just that way!) and some bruises. The pilot that hit him was in a basic aluminum fuselage, broke many bones and was hospitalized. The Diamond was repaired and put back on the line. The other aircraft was literally a pile of bent metal. Also, an early DA20 was landed upside down due to wake turbulence with similar results!

I'd love to have a DA-62!

DA62 is my dream!

Good luck with what you are doing....personally for the rest of my life i will be trusting oldschool analog teck .I must say i would very much like a pair of supercub wings built with carbon fiber. Very cool built in CAN.guys.

Fantastic

Outstanding 👍😎🌏🇦🇺

4:19 Workers jamming to hot tunes lmao

Hey Paul, a brief reference to how composite glider manufacturers have developed all of the molded parts construction from the 1960's on would have been helpful. Modern gliders are made in the very same way and were the forerunners of this impressive technology.

excelente trabajo

Hello and thank you for this excellent video. There is something wrong here or i dont get it. Check the wing laminate starting 2:38. It shows that they add peel ply between the laminate layers. Why is that ? They dont want the layers to adhere together ?

Very good

Paul, I would be interested to see a comparison of Diamond and Cirrus in terms of safety. Both are makers of high-tech composite light aircraft, and both pride themselves on safety. Cirrus takes the approach of having an airframe parachute, optional FIKI, and very sophisticated avionics, while Diamond simply focuses on building a plane with very safe handling characteristics and a very crashworthy cabin.

This was astonishing: I would have expected automation and robotics at some stages, but no, it's hand-crafting all the way. Also answered a question I posted elsewhere: can they be delivered in containers, instead of ferrying, with wings/engines off and the whole craft in a container and assembled at destination. The answer seems to be no because the wings are really "fused" with the fuselage.

@ingramleedy

Жыл бұрын

Wings are removable - they are not fused, but bolted. There is a small rubber gasket that protects the seam. I don't know the process of disassembly and assembly and the economics of it, but it can be done.

@michaelhoffmann2891

Жыл бұрын

@@ingramleedy Thanks for that! Now all I need is the lottery win so I can personally evaluate the cost of disassembled shipment and ferry flight! 😆

@ingramleedy

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelhoffmann2891 I did my instrument training in a DA40 NG and got spoiled! I absolutely loved it and I cannot go back to anything lessor. I put in an order for one, 12 months out ... Gives you time to save. :-) Im sure its easier to ferry the aircraft to wherever you are -- This link has Mike Lang who does it for Diamond, some cool adventure videos kzread.info

if they add a cabin pressurization on the da62 it will be perfect and will be the ultimate GA piston aircraft money can buy.

@christophermichaelson9050

2 жыл бұрын

That plus autothrottle, autoland, and a BRS parachute haha

Very nicely put together. I was trying to get into the head of the persons who gave t'downs. I could not penetrate!!! LOL Cheers

Hello all, Regarding the wing manufacturing i understand that first the lower wing skin is layed up, compacted using vacuum bag and precured. Then the ribs and spar are placed and again precured, then the upper skin is laid up and precured. Doesn't the upper skin also need compaction? Also if the upper and lower skin are seperate don't they form a rough surface or a joining mark on the wing skin which is not desirable?

I learned to fly on a Diamond DA-20.

It was a very revealing plant tour, though I'm sure some of their "secret sauce" was edited out. It seems like a nice environment to work in, but I thought I'd see more masks considering the "sanding, a lot of sanding".

@reggielavoie5260

4 жыл бұрын

Bodymen are a different breed, there would be times im grinding fiberglass with no shirt on, not at that plant of course..

Wing-rockin'... aero-documentary!

¡¡¡Qué hermosa fábrica!!!... Si fabricaron el mosquito.... ¡¡¡deben ser muuuuy buenas máquinas!!!.

Looks very good. Lots of money cost to be purchased

Just had a random thought. If Diamond made a small GA Helicopter while keeping the same style as their fixed wing aircraft including the T tail, it would be very beautiful.

is a welded aluminium tank safer than a blow-molded HDPE one that they use in the automotive industry? it feel that having a big elongation at break is an advantage.

The questions is: how strong the composite material than allumunium & life time? How heavy allumunium or composit ..... tks

@christophermichaelson9050

2 жыл бұрын

Composite is stronger and lighter. A composite airframe should be good for at least 20,000 hours.

Oh...MY...GAWD...12:05. As a former 2M Tech aboard a navy ship, this makes me extremely jelly

Great video. I'm kind of surprised there is so much fiberglass and wet layup. I would have thought there would be more prepreg in huge autoclaves.. but I guess that would be too expensive..

@gusbisbal9803

4 жыл бұрын

iTs also unnecessary. Carbon fibre is best used when your pushing the design geometry to the limit. Strong fibre glass mesh with high quality epoxys produce incredibly strong composites and at a much lower cost. CF is a little like titanium. Have a look at the strength to weight ratio of Chromoly and titanium it ain't that different but its not as sexy as titanium so people use ti to people be interested in the product.

@hzmeister9596

4 жыл бұрын

@@gusbisbal9803 If profit margins weren't an issue and they wanted the best performance possible, you can be sure they wouldn't be using fiberglass. good carbon fiber is over 2x as strong as fiberglass... also, while pure titanium may have the same specific strength as CrMo, titanium alloys can be over 3x better... not to mention it has many other properties than can be more favorable in certain applications.

@gusbisbal9803

4 жыл бұрын

@@hzmeister9596 how much more do the titanium alloys cost than CrMo? Can you answer that? In relation to the fibre glass. If profit margins were not an issue they would be using two jet turbines instead of props. Diamond aircraft is not an artisan workshop where art is their objective and if they make nothing if does not matter. Every single material choice ever made is based off of cost versus return.

Спасибо !!! Давно мечтаю построить самолёт и ... успеть хотя бы разок полетать.

jajajaja fantásticas, didácticas, divertidísimas y muy divertidas los dibujos animados, de verdad muchas gracias amigos un abrazo desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia. fantastic, didactic, hilarious and very funny cartoons, really thank you very much friends, a hug from Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia