NASA technicians work to prepare an SR-71 for research flight at the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility in Edwards, Calif., in 1992. NASA researchers used several SR-71s for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research after the Air Force program was cancelled. (NASA photo) SR-71 Receiving Flight Prep Maintenance Pre-Dawn by AirmanMagazine

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