Edward’s Air Force Base, where the United States Air Force tests it’s hottest aircraft, the jet powered X Plane. I’m Mike Kovac Freelance Still Photographer, here in the middle of the California desert for a photo layout on their hottest pilot…

Mike is on job photographing a test pilot getting ready to fly an experimental craft. During the days leading up to the test flight, it becomes increasingly clear that the pilot’s fiance has some extreme misgivings about him piloting, for reasons you can’t blamer her for. For a while, it seems she had good reason to worry.