Diplomat Aero Matte Orange Fountain pen

Author: Vishnu G

Review Title: AS EXPECTED

• Review Add on: 20-12-2024
• Average Rating: (5)

I have couple of pens from Diplomat including Excellence, Viper. This is my first Aero. Loved the orange color and aluminum built. Weight balance is good. Nib is fine didn't test it yet but dry writing shows that it's good. An extra star for Appelboom customer care for honouring my requirements after that order has been placed.

Author: Kee Joon

Review Title: Great indestructible pen

• Review Add on: 11-05-2024
• Average Rating: (5)

The Diplomat Aero is unique among pen designs. The writing experience is typically excellent, The Matte Orange is really a rich dark orange color and the aluminum body is light and allows for long writing session. The zeppelin form of the body is surprisingly comfortable. The steel nib, which is recommended over the gold nib because of the $200+ extra for the gold nib, is a great value and writes flawlessly. Appelboom offers these pens at a great price. I own half a dozen of these pens in different colors!

Author: Harpreet Kochar

• Review Add on: 24-04-2021
• Average Rating: (4)

The most attractive feature of this pen is the lovely Zeppelin shape and the immaculate machining. Clip and the cap closing mechanism are very user friendly and seem will last me long. The writing section feels occasionally slippery but still not as much as a lamy 2k. Cartridge converter fillilg is international style so you are good to go with that. Nib is as such a good performer. I had an EF Jowo which performed on a dry side but on adjusting the nib was writing superbly well. Got it on Fountain pen Day sale which was very comfortable on wallet.

Author: Mats

Review Title: An absolute beauty

• Review Add on: 07-12-2020
• Average Rating: (4)

I fell in love with this pen when i first saw it. I had to have it. It looks even better in real life and it feels so good in my hand. This is a pen for life.

Author: Jeb

Review Title: Close to perfection

• Review Add on: 22-08-2020
• Average Rating: (5)

I got this pen with a medium nib.

The pros:
- The hate it or love it design. I obviously love it.
- The nib is FANTASTIC. I'm talking about the steel one here. It's as good as any gold nib I've ever owned.. Stiff, but smooooth. Very "felty", close to the feeling of a well-tuned Lamy 2000. At the price, it's a no-brainer.

The cons;
- It's a CC filling mechanism but hey, at the price,, can't have everything. Some people will consider this a plus.
- For the some very strange reason, I couldn't get my most shading ink (Noodler's Apache Sunset) to shade when used with this pen. I never quite figured why, as it is a wet writer. Very strange.
- My biggest gripe is a tiny detail: the barrel keeps unscrewing at the slightest twisting motion. I found I was constantly tightening it and it annoyed me (that and the shading issue, which might just have been my nib) to the extent that I sold it. But I kind of miss it now... It's a pen with a soul.

Author: Dr Luis Alguero

Review Title: It is a pleasure to write with this fountain pen

• Review Add on: 16-08-2020
• Average Rating: (5)

Great looks with original design.Striking colour,Smooth broad steel nib , always wet (my main gripe with many other good pens).Writing is easy, smooth, pleasurable The cap clicks solidly and easily.It is a pen you enjoy both for its striking looks and for the quality and ease of its writing.

Author: Daan Van Hoof

Review Title: Fantastisch

• Review Add on: 19-01-2020
• Average Rating: (5)

Dit is een van de eerste pennen die ik heb gekocht en ik heb er zeker geen spijt van! Het ontwerp met alle groeven is super mooi zonder te opvallend te zijn en de pen licht heel goed in de hand door het gewicht,maar toch is hij niet te zwaar. De pen punt is gewoon fantastisch, diplomat diet echt iets speciaal met deze JoWo punten want ze voelen nog beter dan hun standaard punten. Dit is zeker mijn beste pen met een stalen penpunt, of misschien zelfs mijn beste pen.

Author: Mark H

Review Title: Great Design

• Review Add on: 18-01-2020
• Average Rating: (5)

This is one of the first pens that I bought. It goes everywhere with me. A fine nib that can be scratchy in other pens was smooth in this pen right out of the box. The weight and balance has been well researched and is a pleasure to write with even when posted. I thought the color might wear off but, it will not. I have carried this pen a LOT and other than a few scratches that I put on it, the finish is still great. I would definately buy another.

Author: Raheel Patel

Review Title: Diplomat Aero Orange

• Review Add on: 13-10-2019
• Average Rating: (5)

Got the Diplomat Aero with a Broad 14ct Nib and Having inked it immediately I was glad that I had bought it. The Nib is absolutely amazing and a must buy.

Author: Enzo Fattori

• Review Add on: 30-11-2017
• Average Rating: (4)

This pen is very nice looking one, at the beginning didn't work so well (very dry and scratchy) i used a Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin ink, i flush the pen, i put the normal Lamy blue ink and was a fantastic change, right now write smooth like many video reviews told and is a pleasure write with this pen.
The design and the color are great, very hard finish, not so heavy and very nice to hold. The nib after this little "wash" and change of ink was very smooth, not Pelikan M200 smooth, but very close. No flex, rigid and big nib.

Author: LeeK

• Review Add on: 23-04-2017
• Average Rating: (5)

A fabulous pen! I inked the pen right away with the Diplomat Royal Blue ink that I purchased at the same time, and find it hard to stop writing, cap the pen, and put it aside. It is that nice.
This is my sixth Diplomat fountain pen and the first Aero. I have been holding out for an Aero until the orange comes along. I wanted a color that is unique enough to do justice to the unique shape of the pen, and the orange had far exceeded my expectations. The color is hard to describe, nowhere as shiny (in a good way) as my Parker Duofold Big Red, my Montblanc Rouge Et Noir, or Graf von Faber Castell Intuition terracota. The coating is a darker orange whose color changes with the lighting (but does not reflect). The picture on the web site must have been taken under good light, and shows a lighter orange. On my desk, under filtered light, it is more of a darker orange which I think is better, more classy. The two tone (dark grey at the clip, the tip and the section, orange for the rest) match well. In short, I couldn't say enough about how nice the colors and their combination look. Most of you read this will know about the unique shape, so I will skip that. Still, there are two things stood out: first, this is a metallic pen that feels incredibly light so it delivers a good balance of being durable while light; second, the section, despite being metallic, is very easy to grab. No slip, and I don't get tired in long writing sessions.

The one I ordered came with a 14K nib. This is my second Diplomat with 14K nib, and this one writes better than the other 14K nib (an Excellence A). All my Diplomat steel nibs write equally smooth as their gold nibs, but the gold nib is softer and more pleasant to write with (totally subjective). For its price, the Aero Orange is hard to beat among German pens with god nib. Fabulous pen, great pen, I can't be happier.