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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.
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.
First flight by an aircraft with a pressurized cabin for high altitude flight: by a modified Engineering Division USD-9A A.S.40118 on June 8, 1921 by Art Smith. [ 143 ] First African–American or Native American or Black person to obtain an international pilot's license : Bessie Coleman on June 15, 1921 on a Nieuport 82 .
After the crash, Jacob hiked to the wreckage and collected footage from the plane’s video cameras — which he strapped to the aircraft — that captured it crashing into a “dry brush area ...
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
Jacob later posted a video of the event on YouTube, provoking controversy among members of the aviation community who believed that the crash was staged. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] [ 88 ] The FAA revoked Jacob's pilot certificate in 2022 after determining that he crashed the aircraft for the sole purpose of filming it.
These and other unusual behaviors led to skepticism from the aviation community, who suspected that the crash was a deliberate publicity stunt. [5] [15] [18] The video was viewed 1.7 million times before it was removed from YouTube. [12] Jacob denied having purposefully left the aircraft to crash, saying that "People can believe whatever they ...
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