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The Tale of the Man Who Nearly Drowned While Falling from the Sky (2018x67)
Ausstrahlung: Mär 10, 2018
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The man was Lt. Col William Rankin. How did he almost drown in the sky? In 1959, while ejecting from his F-8 Crusader at 47,000 ft (14,325 meters) and at a speed of Mach .82 (624 mph or 1004 km/h), he got caught up in a cumulonimbus tower (basically a dense, vertical cloud, generally found in areas of extreme atmospheric instability and thunderstorms).
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https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-193693282/stock-photo-cumulonimbus-clouds%2C-the-clouds%2C-the-rain%2C-the-sky-in-the-clouds
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-227516503/stock-photo-clouds-background-cumulonimbus-cloud-formations-before-the-storm
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-227516488/stock-photo-clouds-background-cumulonimbus-cloud-form
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