80 Victories in a Plane Nobody Could See — Transcript

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1. 0:00The deadliest pilot in the sky had one
2. 0:02rule, keep the sun behind you. Imagine
3. 0:04you're flying over France [music] at
4. 0:05sunrise hunting a guy everyone calls the
5. 0:08Red Baron. His plane is bright [music]
6. 0:10red. He hasn't even tried to hide it and
7. 0:12your commander just laughs and says,
8. 0:13"Look for the red one." So, you [music]
9. 0:15scan the sky harder than you've ever
10. 0:16looked at anything in your life. Yet,
11. 0:18your engine is on fire before you even
12. 0:20see a wing. How is that possible? The
13. 0:22Baron isn't [music] even a natural. He
14. 0:24crashed his plane on his very first solo
15. 0:26flight, but pilots from all over the
16. 0:27world fly in to hunt him and for almost
17. 0:30everyone he shoots down, he orders a
18. 0:31silver cup. The only weird thing anyone
19. 0:33ever notices is that the Baron never
20. 0:35looks at you. He just keeps checking the
21. 0:37sun. You see, think about the last time
22. 0:39you took a photo of a friend in front of
23. 0:40a sunset. Your friend came out as a
24. 0:42black blob because your phone dimmed
25. 0:44everything to handle the sun. Your eyes
26. 0:45do the same thing. But, when you went
27. 0:47hunting him, the [music] sun was right
28. 0:49in your eyes and your pupils shrank to
29. 0:51pinholes and that bright red plane
30. 0:53vanished into the glare. The Baron never
31. 0:55hides. He just waits for the sun to get
32. 0:57behind him and [music] let your own eyes
33. 0:58hide him.