Author: William H. Rankin
Publisher: Pyramid R660
Year: 1961 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.50
Condition: Very Good Plus. Light wear. 
Genre: Non Fiction
Pages: 189
SKU: 10123023E

An account of a nine mile fall through space, thunder, lightning, rain, hail, made by the author in July, 1950. He reviews the years of professional military training, from joining the Marines in 1940, through boot training, war in the Pacific, graduation to wings, training in jets. It was the culmination of this that made possible his survival of a fantastic 35 minute ordeal, when forced to abandon his Crusader jet at almost 50,000 feet.

Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin was one of only two known persons to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud; the other was Ewa Wiśnierska. He was a pilot in the United States Marine Corps and a World War II and Korean War veteran.