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In 1963, pilots from 103 Squadron based in Cambrai during an interception exercise. Here, it took five minutes from the time the alert was raised until the 2 "Super Mystère B2" took off, the first mass-produced supersonic fighter aircraft in Western Europe. © ECPAD

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