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Air diagram warning pilots to 'Beware of the Hun in the Sun'

 
 
Beware of the Hun in the Sun' is perhaps the most famous phrase in the history of military aviation and is a lesson which is as valid for today’s military pilots as it was in the First World War. A cunning fighter pilot will always try to use the sun to blind his opponent.