Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside a towering, ominous cumulonimbus cloud? For Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin, this terrifying experience became a reality. In 1959, Rankin ejected from his fighter jet into a thunderstorm and spent a harrowing 40 minutes inside the tempestuous cloud. Miraculously, he survived, becoming one of only two people to … [Read more...] about The Man Who Fell Through a Cloud and Lived to Tell the Tale
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Pilot’s Stunning Photo of Thunderstorm from 37,000 Feet Above Pacific Goes Viral
Last month, pilot Santiago Borja captured an incredible image of a storm high above the Pacific Ocean from an altitude of 37,000 feet. The photograph shows lightning flashes illuminating a massive thunderstorm with an isolated cloud at its center. Borja was flying from New York to Guayaquil, Ecuador, when he spotted the storm. As a pilot, Borja is no stranger to … [Read more...] about Pilot’s Stunning Photo of Thunderstorm from 37,000 Feet Above Pacific Goes Viral