12/31/2010. Remarks by Pierre Bregerie: "Inspired by the North American F-100 Super Sabre, Dassault engineers launched the study of a new wing in 1953. The wing was fitted to the fuselage of the Mystère IV B prototype, and was successively designated Mystère XX, Mystère IV B1 then Super-Mystère B1. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon RA 7R with an afterburning thrust of 9,546 lb (4,330 kg) the prototype was first flown by Paul Boudier on March 2, 1955, and two days later Boudier exceeded the Mach 1 barrier in level flight, becoming the first West European aircraft capable of exceeding Mach 1 in level flight to attain quantity production status.

On March 29, 1955, the Direction Technique Industrielle Aéronautique ordered 180 examples of the SNECMA Atar 101-powered Super-Mystère B-2. The first of five pre-production aircraft was flown by Gerard Muselli from Melun-Villaroche on May 15, 1956, and exceeded Mach 1 without use of afterburner. The Super-Mystère B-2 shared only a common design origin with the Mystère fighter series, being in fact an entirely new type. In addition to the new wing, the type had a larger vertical tail, an oval air intake and a number of other improvements.

The Super-Mystère B-2 was powered by an Atar 101G-2 or -3 of 7,400 lb (3,375 kg) dry thrust and 9,833 lb (4,460 kg) with maximum afterburning. Armament consisted of two 1.18 in (30 mm) cannon and 35 internally-housed 2.68 in (68 mm) rockets (the latter being discarded at an early service stage), external loads including two Sidewinder AAMs, two 882-1,102 lb (400-500 kg) bombs or rocket pods.

The first production series Super-Mystère B-2 was first flown from Bordeaux Mérignac on 26 February 1957. The first fifteen aircraft (c/n 1 to 15) had a straight leading edge wing, as seen on the aircraft coded "H", and were test flown from the Centre d'Essai Aerien Militaire at Mont de Marsan, where I was a pilot between April 1962 and January 1965. The sawtooth leading edge was introduced on the Super-Mystère B-2 in 1958, and the first fifteen aircraft were returned to Dassault at Bordeaux Mérignac in 1964, to be modified with a sawtooth leading edge wing.

Production of the Super-Mystère reached 180, 154 went to the Armée de l'Air, 24 to Israel, and two were completed as Super-Mystère B4s in 1958, these having Atar 9B engines rated at 13,227 lb (6,000 kg) st with afterburning. During Israeli service, the Super-Mystère B-2s were re-engined with a non-afterburning Pratt & Whitney J52-P-8A turbojet of 9,300 lb (4,218 kg) st. In 1977, eighteen of these aircraft were sold by Israel to Honduras where the last surviving examples were withdrawn from service in 1989. The last was withdrawn from use in January 1996."