….I thought the SR was mostly double sided tape and velcro.
And then you look at the recent NC incident photos and realize somehow the SR assembly is strong…
Are you sure about the Diamonds? When I visited their factory in Austria, I remember the DA62 being mostly carbon fiber, while the DA42 was (except for the spar) mostly fiber glass - but it’s been a while, so my memory may trick me.
Marlon,
If you’re ever in HND I’d gladly share expenses for chance to fly a -62.
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I actually meant composite. I’m not sure what is fiberglass vs carbon fiber. They all look the same. 
Some of the composites used by Diamond have changed over the years. The most obvious difference is not the fibers but the resin. All DA40s and early DA42s used a resin that was temperature sensitive and had to be painted white. Later DA42s, all 62s and the DA50 have a more temperature tolerant resin that can accept colored paint.
The DA40 fuselage is mostly fiberglass with carbon reinforcement in select areas. The cowling is made of a carbon/kevlar weave.
DA42s, 62s and the DA50 have an all carbon fiber fuselage, some glass in the horizontal stab, actually not sure about the control surfaces but they are not metal.
They all use the same wing which is layers of fiberglass, carbon fiber and aluminum mesh and the two carbon spars.
That screenshot is from Paul Bertorelli’s video of a trip to the Diamond factory.
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Please stop talking about Diamonds in the G7 meaningless rumor thread. Every time I see new replies pop up I get excited thinking about the NEXT unsubstantiated rumor I can read and obsess over but instead…DIAMONDS! 
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Diamond are forever 
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But CIRRUSES are a girls’ best friend!
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Fine. Diamonds are awesome. BTW, heard from a very reliable source with a friend who knows someone that the 2022 WILL be a G7 and in addition to a third row of seating and a new max of 4500 pounds (including the new 120 gallon tanks, the new SR23 will be fully autonomous and the front left and right seats will have a massage option. There, back on track!
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Is the massage option mechanical or human??
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Somebody is going to have to do some serious massaging of the numbers to get all that equipment into a current Cirrus airframe 
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My first thought before I got to the end of your sentence was “James Bond-style ejection seat”, since it’s autonomous.
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Cirrus next major step should be a SR22 TB .turbo diesel . ie very low gals/hr.
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That thing was inflated manually. Yup. This is fully autonomous. You should each develop your own mental image of what that means…
Does anyone else freak out every time they show up to the forum and see the title of this thread?
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Only the ones that have a deposit on a G6 
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Yup
When will they announce the upgrades for 2022?
I heard from a reliable source that there will not be a G7 in 2022. Apparently Cirrus laid off the engineer team working on the G7 when Covid happened. Now they are only just putting the team back together to continue the program. That and part shortages means the G7 is at least a year out apparently.
Price increase for next year will be 5%.
Nice, now this thread is starting to live up to its title.
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