“As one Reddit thread a couple years back found, about 65 percent of flight attendants would admit to letting things slide.

“According to a 2011 Skyscanner survey of over 1,000 travelers, 95 percent of people surveyed said they want to join the Mile High Club, yet only 20 percent have actually given it a try”, according to this article written by Kristine Fellizar of Bustle. Since that auspicious moment, many people have engaged in applying for lifetime membership into this club - including actresses such as Cara Delevingne and Margot Robbie, according to this article written by Roshina Jowaheer for America Online - excuse me…I mean AOL. A gallant Sperry explained that the force of the crash had stripped both fliers of all their clothing, but that didn’t stop a skeptical New York tabloid from running the famous headline ‘Aerial Petting Ends in Wetting.’ For his caper, Sperry is generally considered the founder of the Mile High Club, a cohort that loosely includes all those who have ever ‘done it’ in flight (though precisely what constitutes ‘it’ remains a lurking definitional issue).”Īccording to this article written by Mark Gerchick of The Atlantic, Lawrence Burst Sperry invented the autopilot in June of 1914 and used it more than two years later to - ahem - create what is now euphemistically known as the Mile High Club.

During their airborne antics, however, the two unwittingly managed to bump and disengage the autopilot, sending their plane into Great South Bay, where they were rescued, both stark naked, by duck hunters.

“L egend has it that in late November 1916, while piloting a Curtiss Flying Boat C‑2 some 500 feet above the coast of Long Island, he used his instrument to administer a novel kind of flying lesson to one Cynthia Polk (whose husband was driving an ambulance in war-torn France).

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