You wonder what they are doing now? Well thirty years ago they were working on Hyper Sonic. Anyone living in the L.A. Area then should remember the ultra-loud sonic booms on Thursday afternoons.
There was always a lag waiting for the metals to catch up with the engineers design plans.
Those were vary heady days working there then, also there were no Snowden’s working there as they were never compromised.
Saw them at Rome AFB. Now closed. During Egyptian Israeli war. They left at night. Long purple flames. Strutting pilots in chow hall demanded steak for midnight breakfast, and got it.
They left there presumably to take pics of the situation.
Saw them in hanger. Quite impressive.