British Aircraft Corporation congratulates No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Air Force Strike Command, flying Lightning interceptors, on winning the 1970 Huddleston Trophy - NATO's award to its top fighter squadron.

Each year, NATO fighter squadrons and their associated ground control stations compete in realistic tests designed to prove each air defence sector's efficiency. Over a period of two months in 1970, Lightnings, Mirages, F-104s and F-102s flown by pilots of eight Allied nations completed more than 200 sorties under representative operational conditions — by day and by night, in good weather and bad, at subsonic andsupersonic speeds.And No. 5 Squadron, with its Lightnings, outflew all the other contestants in this international test of airdefence efficiency and fighter performance which faithfully simulates the realities of actual combat.