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The club no one hopes to join (2017)

by cf100clunk on 4/24/25, 7:03 PM with 2 comments

• by zeptonaut22 on 4/24/25, 7:45 PM

  --- *40 minutes* Time it took Rankin to descend, due to a thunderstorm’s vertical air currents forcing him upward ---

  Can you imagine the sheer terror of skydiving for 40 minutes through a thunderstorm? Jeepers.

• by 1970-01-01 on 4/24/25, 7:31 PM

  I always heard it was the club for "pilots with more takeoffs than landings"