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The Tale of the Man Who Nearly Drowned While Falling from the Sky (2018x67)


Yayınlanma tarihi: Mar 10, 2018

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, c→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Siberian Family Who Didnt See Other Humans For Over 40 Years https://youtu.be/zwN7UNZIevs?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Adolf Hitler's British Nephew Who Joined the U.S. Navy https://youtu.be/WbvR1VtfShw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: 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). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/01/the-fascinating-tale-of-the-man-who-nearly-drowned-while-falling-from-the-sky/ Sources: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0016ELYI6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0016ELYI6&linkCode=as2&tag=vicastingcom-20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_suck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rankin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus http://www.damninteresting.com/rider-on-the-storm/ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937849,00.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Akron_%28ZRS-4%29 Image Credit: http://www.shutterstock.com/ 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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