Blue stripes!

We've got some color on CMA!  This week we got the blue stripes painted on the airplane, so it's beginning to look good again!  As most people say, "it's beginning to look like an airplane again."  I guess that's really only in the eye of the beholder...I've always seen it as an airplane, no matter how many pieces it is in!  Once the stripes are on, we begin doing some assembly and other odds and ends...this is really when it begins to take shape!  In the mean time, enjoy pictures of our progress!

Timothy getting the paint mixing bowl cleaned out.  

Myself and Timothy going over the correct way to clean the paint gun.  Don't I look like some sort of  hillbilly in my coveralls and gum boots?  Someone (an American) told me all I needed was a straw hat and a piece of grass sticking out of my mouth... :)

The carolina blue stripe down the fuselage...

...and on the vertical stabilizer.  

David wiping down some parts before the second batch of blue.  

Aaahhhh, the duke blue!

Registration numbers on the fuselage...

...and on the wing!  Most countries outside the US require that you put the registration numbers not only on the fuselage, but also on the bottom of the left wing.  And they have to be huge.  

The vertical stab, all painted and resting in the side of the paint booth.  Above the blue stripes will be the AIM Air logo sticker.  

The rudder, with stripes corresponding to the vertical stab.  

And the fuselage!  This certainly looks a bit different than CMA used to look like!  It turned out to be a fairly decent paint job, which is always good.  There are always some small things that don't look the best, but we're still learning how to be the best, right?!  Praise the Lord for His strength!