William Rankin
William Rankin
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin was, besides Ewa Wiśnierska, the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud. He was a pilot in the United States Marine Corps and a World War II and Korean War veteran. He was flying an F-8 Crusader jet fighter over a cumulonimbus cloud when the engine failed, forcing him to eject and parachute into the cloud. Lieutenant Colonel Rankin wrote a book about his experience, The Man Who Rode the Thunder.
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Male
Date of Birth
October 16th, 1920
Age
104
Birth Place
United States of America, Pennsylvania
Date of Death
July 6th, 2009
Died Aged
88
Star Sign
Libra
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