Platinum Aerospace and Aircraft Design · 2024
Da50 Rg Single Engine Piston Aircraft
by Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH
- A' Design Award 2024 Platinum Winner in Aerospace and Aircraft Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,411,980
- Verification code EA04410D6B · Verify this award
About Da50 Rg Single Engine Piston Aircraft
Da50 Rg recently emerged as the ultimate aircraft for pilots and their passengers: the most spacious, jet-fuel efficient, luxurious, modern, eco-friendly single-engine piston aircraft in the world. The Da50 Rg takes modern general aviation to another level with retractable gear, a twin turbo charged jet-fueled 300HP engine and state-of-the-art avionics. The sleek all carbon composite airframe incorporates advanced aerodynamics with the latest in passive safety technology for high performance.
Diamond Aircraft's Da50 Rg Single Engine Piston Aircraft represents a distinguished achievement within contemporary general aviation design, embodying the synthesis of advanced engineering principles with refined aesthetic sensibility that characterizes the finest examples of twenty-first century aircraft development. The work presented here captures the aircraft in its natural element, banking through dramatic cloud formations that serve both as environmental context and as formal counterpoint to the manufactured precision of the machine itself. The chromatic program demonstrates sophisticated understanding of visual hierarchy, employing a foundation of deep blues that reference both sky and speed while strategic orange accents provide navigational emphasis and brand distinction without disrupting the overall harmony of the composition. Technical accomplishment manifests throughout the design in the integration of retractable landing gear systems that contribute to aerodynamic efficiency, the T-tail stabilizer configuration that enhances performance characteristics, and the expansive canopy that prioritizes pilot visibility while maintaining structural integrity. The composite construction methodology enables the complex compound curves visible along the fuselage and cowling sections, forms that simultaneously serve aerodynamic function and aesthetic appeal. This particular documentation captures the aircraft at a moment of banking turn, a pose that reveals the full dimensional character of the design while suggesting the responsive handling characteristics valued by discerning pilots. The relationship between machine and atmosphere, between engineered precision and natural sublimity, invites contemplation of humanity's enduring aspiration toward flight and the technological ingenuity that continues to refine this ancient dream into contemporary reality. Viewers might consider how such designs balance competing demands of performance, safety, efficiency, and beauty, and what such achievements reveal about human creativity applied to the challenge of aerial transportation.
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- Unique Properties
- DA50 RG recently emerged as the ultimate aircraft for pilots and their passengers: the most spacious, jet-fuel efficient, luxurious, modern, eco-friendly single-engine piston aircraft in the world.The DA50 RG takes modern general aviation to another level with retractable gear, a twin turbo charged jet-fueled 300HP engine and state-of-the-art avionics. The sleek all carbon composite airframe incorporates advanced aerodynamics with the latest in passive safety technology for high performance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Engine:Continental CD-300 turbocharged, FADEC controlled jet fuel engine with 300 hp TOP / 272 hp MCP
Width: 13.41m
Height: 2.95m
Length:9.24m
Seats: 5
Max.speed: 335 km/h TAS
Max. range (FL180, 45% PWR) no climb, no reserves: 1,520 km
Consumption at max. range (FL180, 45% PWR): 30.2 lt/hr
Consumption (12,000 ft, 60% PWR): 38.9 lt/hr
Max. take off mass: 1,999 kg
Maximum useful load: 549 kg
Take-off performance (MSL, ground roll / take-off obstacle): 407 m / 734 m
Landing performance (MSL, ground roll / landing distance):344 m / 678 m
Maximum operating altitude: 6,096 m - Tags
- Diamond Aircraft, DA50 RG, DA50, single-engine, piston aircraft, jet-fuel, jet fuel, jet-fuel engine, jet fuel engine, carbon fibre, composite aircraft, magnificent, capacity, luxury, retractable gear, high tech
- Production Technology
- The aircraft is fully made of carbon composite with specific areas out of glass fiber composite to optimize the design with a sophisticated jet-fuel engine. Besides aluminum alloy, for e.g. landing gear structure, also modern 3D-print materials are used. The glass cockpit consists of state-of-the-art Garmin avionics.
- Project Duration
- Duration: In 2018 the DA50 RG project started with Continental CD300 Engine; In 2020 DA50 RG has received EASA Type Certificate
Location: Wiener Neustadt, 2700 Austria - Operation Flow
- This aircraft is designed for private pilots as well as for flight schools to fly/train with a modern diesel engine combined with modern avionics and systems.
- Inspiration
- The DA50 RG design is the latest evolution of Diamond Aircraft’s original vision that started with the single-engine DA20: combining modern composite construction and advanced design technologies to create the safest and most modern general aviation aircraft product range and to meet the increasing demand for a premium high performance single engine piston light aircraftThe aircraft is fully made of carbon composite with specific areas out of glass fiber composite to optimize the design.
- Image Credits
- All images and videos are owned by Diamond Aircraft Ind. GmbH
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