top picture, Dan Sullivan, (call sign, "Hack"), and Tim Brutsche, (call sign, "Dawg"), join up over Lake Michigan, enroute to Battle Creek, MI., Tim's home base. Two other L-39's will join our three-ship this weekend to make up the formation team called, "The Hoppers". bottom, Glenn Smith's (call sign,"Skids") pristene L-39 sits glistening in the morning sun at Jane's Field in Blaine, Minnesota prior to takeoff to Michigan.