More from the museum at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Mothballed museum jets scattered around the parking lot and tarmac of the DFRC.

More pictures from the Mojave Desert. Blurring is due to the fact that they were taken from a minivan moving at 75 miles per hour on the highway.

Earlier today I was gifted with a unique experience that I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd ever do, much less squee like a rabid fangirl over - I got a tour of the hangar and they let me sit in the cockpit of an F-18 in the facility's air fleet. With the permission of my PoC and the hangar chief, I was allowed to bring my camera in and be photographed while sitting in the (very tiny) cockpit of a fully operational F-18 jet. First off, I had to remove everything that might possibly fall out of my pockets …

A couple of photographs taken of some exhibits at the museum of the Dryden Flight Research Center.