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The setting sun peeks beneath a SR-71B Blackbird, silhouetted against the orange hues of the western sky on a 1995 flight at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre. Two SR-71 aircraft were transferred to NASA after the U.S. Air Force program was cancelled. The NASA SR-71s were flown until the beginning of the decade before being put into flyable storage. A very striking photo but quite heavily degraded so given the usual work over with CS3 & NoiseNinja. .

Credit: NASA Dryden Photo Collection.