#OTD in 1959, Lt. Col. William Rankin ejected from his F-8 Crusader at 47,000 ft and fell through a thunderstorm cloud. He then spent 40 minutes being whipped around as lightning bolts shot by him. Suffering frostbite and severe decompression, he eventually landed in a forest.
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