{"id":5720,"date":"2020-07-17T15:21:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2024-12-18T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T10:41:21","slug":"robins-saga-episode-7-the-metal-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/en\/2020\/07\/robins-saga-episode-7-the-metal-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin&#8217;s Saga episode #7 &#8211; The Metal Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone rings the handbell in the workshops. New order coming in! A new plane is soon going be emerging, piece by piece, from every workbench.<br \/>\nThe order passes through the fine sieve of the IT system. Printers are already warm. The manufacturing orders &#8211; \u00ab\u00a0OF\u2019s\u00a0\u00bb for \u00ab\u00a0Ordre de Fabrication\u00a0\u00bb &#8211; are now sprinkling all over the Darois factory. There\u2019s thousands of those sheets of paper that itemize the workflow specific to each workshop, each team and each employee. It\u2019s raining OF\u2019s and the wooden parts quickly grow and assemble to shape the most famous part of the DR401: its silhouette.<br \/>\nOf course, it\u2019s only natural that wood is usually perceived as the star material in a Robin, but let\u2019s not forget it could never reach the sky without metal.<br \/>\nSo let\u2019s follow that thought and that pack of sheets going through the assembly workshop towards a spiral staircase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-1536x1102.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-960x689.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170-550x395.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3170.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s follow that thought and that pack of sheets going through the assembly workshop towards a spiral staircase. Carried by Didier\u2019s hands, the pack goes down the stairs, then through the plastic curtain and that\u2019s exactly when the ruckus reaches the ears: cutting and slicing and bending and milling and sawing and drilling and hallmarking can be heard all at once. There\u2019s no doubt we are now in the CEAPR metal workshop.<br \/>\nThe pack of OF\u2019s passes by the storage magazine, the control office and through the workshop, weaving through the hydraulic presses, the folding machines and the roll benders. There\u2019s a smell of oil and welding in the air, sparking all kinds of questions. The pack of sheets goes up a few stairs to get to the foreman\u2019s office. And the foreman, as it is, is precisely Didier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5616 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3616.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s two or three generations of keys in his office, hanging there on the wall, opening all sorts of doors and triggering all kinds of machinery. The shelves are overflowing with blueprints and archives. In this very room, each OF multiplies again, miraculously, through CEAPR\u2019s own IT system: the nose gear, for instance, consists of three distinct manufacturing orders including the \u00ab\u00a0box\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0leg\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0 lock pin\u00a0\u00bb. Three OF\u2019s that decompose further into dozens of operations and so on. There\u2019s usually five of six hundred OF\u2019s at a time, not only to contribute to the planes that are being assembled at the moment, but first and foremost to provide the spare parts for the Robins all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5611 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-768x913.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-1292x1536.jpg 1292w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-960x1142.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2-550x654.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3584-2.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say nobody can indulge into idleness.<br \/>\nThe manufacturing orders leave the foreman\u2019s office one by one, in the hands of his men. Almost every one of them can do almost everything on almost any machine.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s follow a specific OF if you will. This one, for example, going towards the back of the workshops in the hands of Dimitri, Didier\u2019s right-hand man. Dimitri slows down near a colossal oven that kind of looks like an elevator in a forgotten palace. Dimitri turns to the right whilst checking the OF and stops in front of a huge cage in which hundreds of long tubes of various sizes and alloys are stored. That tube magazine makes quite an impression, like a gigantic organ was overturned in an oversized bird cage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5640 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-768x790.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-1493x1536.jpg 1493w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-960x987.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327-550x566.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3327.jpg 1991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dimitri chooses a few tubes then conscientiously marks his measurements before proceeding to saw the tube into a dozen portions. As the tube gets smaller and smaller, the pace is set by the outbursts of sparks between each portion made. Dimitri ends up with a set of twelve tubes to be deburred and degreased before the OF ends up in Abdel\u2019s hands to be bevelled \u00ab\u00a0wolf-mouth\u00a0\u00bb style.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5601 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3196-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3196-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3196-768x1184.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3196-960x1480.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then Abdel walks over to the other side of the workshop, passing by the foreman\u2019s office and the welding stations -where he leaves the tubes &#8211; then following the shelves crowded with machined parts and templates still hot from the hammer blows\u2026 He walks all the way down to the heavy lathing and milling machines, Bouboule\u2019s territory. Bouboule is Bruno, and Bruno, with his thirty-three years in the metal workshop, never has a problem with anything. He only has solutions. So Bouboule merely glances at the OF and before any milling or lathing takes place, he has to go for the angle iron plates to slice some up. Once that\u2019s done, he comes back to the lathing and milling zone to lathe and mille, and then drills openings for screws and bolts on the baseplates he just fashioned. He hardly ever looked at the OF in the process, just here and there for the sake of habits. He then proceeds to head for another machine close by, to \u00ab\u00a0guillotine\u00a0\u00bb sheets of metal into eight separate parts, then roll-bends those to get the eight halves of the four bobbin supports the OF is asking for. His swift pace and light step then leads him to Sokal and his hydraulic press that sort of resembles a pagan mausoleum. Sokal stamps the half-supports until he finds the right \u00ab\u00a0angle\u00a0\u00bb of bulging before sending them along with the tubes and baseplates to the welding stations. The OF lands on Tataye\u2019s workbench. Tataye seems to know it by heart already. He flips through the metal rods then draws a few with a wide gesture like they were arrows from a quiver.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3591-1.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3296-1.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He puts down his mask and immediately starts welding the eight parts into four bobbin-supports that he then welds to the \u00ab\u00a0wolf-mouthed\u00a0\u00bb tubes, all that in an Eiffel-towery-fashion. The \u00ab\u00a0barrel\u00a0\u00bb of his TIG gun produces an hypnotic sizzling star from which a thin line of blue smoke rise like that of a cigarette. Components assemble quite rapidly, the structure appears slowly. Tataye finishes up with the baseplates that Bouboule prepared and that will be used to attach this impressive engine-mount to the rest of the DR401. That mount will have to support not only the vertical weight of the two-pounds-per-horse-engine but also the phenomenal traction that is supposed to take the plane along with the engine\u2026 Let\u2019s not forget of course the torsion effort that inflicts the propeller attached to the engine\u2019s 120, 160, 180 or 200 horses. That is why the engine-mount has to be, every time without exception, a monument of precision. One has to make every last gram count.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5683\" style=\"width: 805px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5683\" class=\"wp-image-5683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-1024x814.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-1536x1220.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-960x763.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882-550x437.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3882.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every single part of an engine-mount, as you can see to itemize every single operation would have taken about five pages of this article&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there\u2019s an OF fully done, that\u2019s going back to Didier\u2019s office whilst the engine-mount is headed to control, then painting, then control again before going in stock at \u00ab\u00a0upstairs\u2019\u00a0\u00bb disposition.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, in his office, Didier is perusing the priorities the IT system has set and cross-matches it with what he knows about the schedules and specialities of each of his men. A handful of OF\u2019s are then given to Dimitri who gets out of the office and slaloms once again from Laurent to Eric, and from Patrick to Antoine. With their respective OF\u2019s in hand, all of them immediately start for their respective tasks, moving towards the fluffers, the tube benders and other band-saws.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-768x1232.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-958x1536.jpg 958w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-960x1540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192-550x882.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3192.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3193-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3193-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3193-768x1123.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><br \/>\nDown here, the old french-made machines have friendly faces, loyal looks so to speak. They sometimes look surprised that they\u2019ve been sharing the workshop for about forty or fifty years with men that always look composed, kind of cool, travelling from one end of the shop to the other, amidst the bursts of sparks and hanging cables with the same ease they would demonstrate in their own living-room. Some of those men have actually been here longer than the machines, others are more recent than the thoroughly-up-to-date IT system. Mixing generations is the way things have always been done around here, it\u2019s simply the best way to let the know-how flow from one to the next\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3270.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3263.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3261.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway benders can still be heard bending, drillers drilling and jokers joking about things one cannot understand if one isn\u2019t a metal-worker or a boilermaker or a coppersmith or even a good old village blacksmith. In the meantime, another OF got out of the office with Patrick who just cut a much thicker kind of sheet, using the giant \u00ab\u00a0guillotine\u00a0\u00bb that must be a DR 401-long and weigh about three or four of those. The metal sheets he takes into the routing-machine-booth are covered with hand-marked measurements. He operates manually the massive articulated arm to make it cut fine round angles like he was manufacturing lace for fine lingerie\u2026 Except he\u2019s doing \u00ab\u00a0fine-metalerie\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5709 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888-550x825.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3888.jpeg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><br \/>\nThis thorough workmanship results in six separate parts, six meticulously rounded flat ribs that are sent to Sokal for stamping. Meanwhile, at the other end of the workshop, Antoine is carefully working out the bending of a large metal sheet on the big \u00ab\u00a0Bombled\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>This trapezoidal bending angle is easily recognizable: it\u2019s the fuel-tank enveloppe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5679\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5679\" class=\" wp-image-5679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-1024x993.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-768x744.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-1536x1489.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-960x930.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864-550x533.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3864.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All parts of the fuel tank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The six ribs will soon be riveted in parallel lines by Nico. Round openings have been left in each rib to allow the fuel to go from one side to the other without putting the aircraft\u2019s balance at risk in case of a sudden turn. The tank weighs only about twelve pounds but it can stock up to 109 liters, which is about one eighth of the DR401\u2019s total tare weight.<br \/>\nNow Nico has to weld the enveloppe along a single horizontal line and send it to control, painting, control again\u2026 you know the drill by now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5627 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-960x1436.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255-550x823.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3255.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5707 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932-550x825.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3932.jpeg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s stop right there for a moment. Right there in the middle of this ballet of OF\u2019s and workers, rough materials and refined bits of metal. Let\u2019s listen to the heartbeat produced by all those hands, hammers and machines beating on steel as if they were looking for the right sound on a cymbal. Let\u2019s have a look at those workbenches that show stratified know-how. There\u2019s so many traces of tools there. Tools that carved or burnt the table, that took wood dust along with metal dust.<br \/>\nAll this hard work, every day, is done by all those hands to transform sheets and tubes into rods, boxes, pipes, wing flaps, mounts, supports, brackets, silencers, exhausts, dashboards, tanks, fire walls, canopy and seat structures, deflectors, gears, rudders, handles and all types of control sticks\u2026 and all that, of course, multiplied by the number of Robin models that came out along the years and the many, many different motorisations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5675\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5675\" class=\"wp-image-5675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-768x981.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-1203x1536.jpg 1203w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-960x1226.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827-550x702.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3827.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Informal gathering of metal pieces at the coffee break.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To keep the older Robins flying &#8211; some of them are actually over fifty years old now &#8211; the metal workshop has to keep up this production throughput to go on providing the spare parts indispensable to those longevity records. A great responsibility, and quite the indication of aimed-at quality.<br \/>\nHere, the machines are so immense, occupy the space between floor and ceiling so fully, that one could believe they\u2019re the pillars of this workshop.<br \/>\nBut by no means is that true. The only pillars here, are men.<br \/>\nDidier, the foreman, actually thinks that every last one of his men benefits from the highly-demanding environment of aeronautics and is fully aware of the human quality of that workshop in particular. Where everything seems so human and mechanical at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5634 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-960x1440.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3279.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/>From a distance, every part seems to have been machine-made, like it just came out of a production chain. But here, machines are only tools in the hands of men. And up close, one can actually see the minuscule irregularities that reveal unmistakably the specific ways of the human eyes and hands.<br \/>\nMaybe those hands, guided by those eyes, are the reason those planes are so lively. Wood makes them float on air, but oddly enough, it\u2019s all that metal that allows them to take off. The DR401 can only take shape through teamwork. It can only get closer and closer to perfection if the Robin and CEAPR? workshops manage to combine forces so as to harmonise wood and metal to the highest degree.<\/p>\n<p>The newborn that was ordered this morning, will see the light after many days like the one we witnessed today. That is after many of these races where the IT system passes on the baton to the \u00ab\u00a0fully-equipped\u00a0\u00bb robinites.<br \/>\nBut hold that thought\u2026 another is bell is ringing, and this time it\u2019s ringing the end of the day. The workshop slowly empties, the focused looks on every face turns into jovial ones with the last few private jokes. Somebody turns the neons off. Soon enough, there\u2019s only the dripping sound of the ruban saw and the light in Didier\u2019s office to let us know time hasn\u2019t stopped. It\u2019s been sixty-three years, and it\u2019s just a start.<br \/>\nTomorrow at eight, the great ballet will have already picked up where it left it tonight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-768x1130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-1044x1536.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-960x1412.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610-550x809.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.robin-aircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/CAZ_3610.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone rings the handbell in the workshops. 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