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  2. Lawrence Sperry - Wikipedia

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    A website using the name Mile High Club regards the "Club's" "founder" as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry, [6] along with "socialite Mrs. Waldo Peirce" (Dorothy Rice Sims) [7] citing their flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near New York in November 1916.

  3. List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia

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    First authenticated membership in the "Mile-high club": by pilot/engineer Lawrence Sperry and pilot/socialite Dorothy Rice Sims in her Curtiss Model F flying boat, which was equipped with an autopilot near New York on November 21, 1916, however Sperry bumped the autopilot, and a botched landing resulted in both of them being discovered unclothed.

  4. Mile High Club (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The mile high club is slang for people who have had sexual intercourse on board an aircraft whilst in flight. Mile High Club may also refer to: "Mile High Club", a song by Adam and the Ants from the 1981 album Prince Charming "Mile High Club", a song by Bow Wow Wow from the 1982 EP The Last of the Mohicans

  5. A Spirit passenger on a Florida-bound flight was met by law enforcement after he was accused of grabbing members of the flight crew and asking if they wanted to “join the mile high club ...

  6. Mile High - Wikipedia

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    Mile High is a British television drama based on the lives of the cabin crew members of Fresh!, a budget airline based in London. The name of the show is a reference to the Mile High Club. The show was broadcast on Sky1 from 2003 to 2005 and then aired again on Sky Three. In 2012, CBS Drama obtained the rights to the series.

  7. Wright Flyer - Wikipedia

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    Distant view of the Wright airplane just after landing, taken from the starting point, with wing-rest in center of picture and launching rail at right. This flight, the fourth and final of 17 December 1903, was the longest: 852 feet (260 m) covered in 59 seconds. [15] [16] The photo was published in 1908.

  8. Mysteries at the Museum - Wikipedia

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    "Invention of the Mile High Club, The Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson, Zip to Zap" April 10, 2015 () 90: 3 "Opera Riot, Golfer Behind Enemy Lines, The Great Mail Train Robbery" April 17, 2015 () 91: 4 "Stolen Strad, Fall From Space, Czech Dream" April 24, 2015 () 92: 5

  9. How common are plane engine fires and bird collisions? An ...

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    The airplane is designed to be able to withstand a bird impact. However, sometimes the circumstance is more than what the engine is designed to ingest, or it causes some particular damage.