Belly skins...

We've been working this past week or so on getting the belly skins ready to install on 5Y-CMA while also doing an inspection on 5Y-SIL, another Cessna 206 in the fleet.  As of now, the skins are ready to be riveted in place.  Below are some pictures of the work. 

Every now and then, we get some students passing through the hangar on a field trip.  Today, they posed for a picture with CMA. 

Jeremy (below the plane) and I riveting the first belly skin back into CMA. 

By the look on my face, that must've been one flat rivet...please pass the syrup!

...if you didn't get the joke about the syrup...flat rivets are called "pancakes."

The Prophet.  We laughed so much about so many people calling Jeremy, "Moses" or "Abraham" or something else.  It was so funny.

Making sure all the holes line up and are the correct size.  I have some crazy eyes look...

So this is pretty much how the airplane looks now (except without Jeremy underneath) with the skins all cleco'd in place and ready for rivets. 

Jeremy (bottom) and Tim Carpenter were match drilling all the holes in the skins as we did the "test fit."  We put all the skins on, match drilled holes, then removed the skins and cleaned and prepped the metal.  Then we installed them for the final fit.  Now...we rivet!!