F-16 taxiing

An important element of what happens at Edwards is the Test Pilot School, the Air Force's top training program for test flight pilots. The school accepts between 20 and 24 students per class, each of whom will spend a year getting a master's degree there.

Among the planes they fly are F-16s, like the one seen here taxiing in after landing at Edwards. But they also fly about 20 different planes during various exercises, including the T-38, the C-12, the ASK 21, the F-15D, the KC-135, the F-15E, and the NF-16D Vista.