The full article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... ub/355733/

In June 1914, at a historic aeronautical-safety competition in Paris, a 21-year-old American daredevil pilot-inventor named Lawrence Burst Sperry stunned the aviation world by using the instrument to keep a biplane flying straight and level along the Seine. According to his biographer, William Wyatt Davenport, Sperry stood on a wing as the plane, in effect, flew itself—a feat that won him the event’s $10,000 prize.

By eliminating the need for taxing “hand flying” on long journeys, and thereby reducing pilot fatigue, Sperry’s autopilot ultimately made flying much safer. But it had another, less obvious benefit. It freed up pilots to do other things with their hands—and bodies. The brilliant young Sperry himself soon grasped the possibilities. Legend 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). 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. 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,


“Flying,” the 1930s stunt pilot Pancho Barnes is often quoted as saying, “makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a stack of $20 bills.”

A “Sex Census” published in 2011 by the condom maker Trojan found that 33 percent of American men aspire to have sex on an airplane.

When Virgin Atlantic installed diaper-changing tables aboard its new Airbus A340-600 long-haul jets, in 2002, it wasn’t just mothers and children who found them useful. Within weeks, according to the airline, the tables were destroyed by “those determined to join the Mile High Club.”

Even a visit to the bathroom can trigger a full-bore fighter-jet scramble, as it did on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when a pair of F‑16s shadowed a Frontier flight until it landed in Detroit after two passengers made for the lavatory at the same time.

I've soloed in the MHC but haven't got any dual yet.

TMI

I have GoPro video.

Definitely TMI.

Cary

So, I have this friend who, on a calm day, in a 172, with a limber girlfriend, accomplished this task without benefit of an auto pilot. With God as my witness (he was looking in through the window and laughing hysterically) this "feet" was accomplished using a toe on the trim wheel. Yup.

flyingzebra wrote:So, I have this friend who, on a calm day, in a 172, with a limber girlfriend, accomplished this task without benefit of an auto pilot. With God as my witness (he was looking in through the window and laughing hysterically) this "feet" was accomplished using a toe on the trim wheel. Yup.

I think she'd have to be more than just limber; otherwise, no pix, didn't happen.

Cary

Does it have to be with another person ?

I can only say that my friends wife will blush and laugh if you mention "Toe trim."

Ha ha, the accounting I read of the incident was by a guy who used to work for Sperry, and never told the true story until after Sperry's death and on his own deathbed. People had a little more self respect back then!

Not now though: BC12D T-Craft, between West Yellowstone and Bozeman, ex-city cop, nuclear site SWAT team member, bar owner, local long time radio DJ, and then professional stand up comedian friend Pammy and I were flying up to Helena, and the flight path got a little erratic and then minutes later stable flight was restored, that's all I'm saying.

There is a story I remember reading somewhere about a couple in England that tried it in a 152. Apparently her butt got shove up against the PTT button on the mic and ATC (and everyone else on the freq.) despite their repeated attempts to contact the pilot was treated to a 20 min port audio. ATC further had to warn other pilots on the freq to stop moaning and panting when making their radio calls.

Absolutely true internet story.

Magnet wrote:Does it have to be with another person ?

See the second post on this thread.

svanarts wrote:There is a story I remember reading somewhere about a couple in England that tried it in a 152. Apparently her butt got shove up against the PTT button on the mic and ATC (and everyone else on the freq.) despite their repeated attempts to contact the pilot was treated to a 20 min port audio. ATC further had to warn other pilots on the freq to stop moaning and panting when making their radio calls.

Absolutely true internet story.

20 minutes? That right there proves the story to be untrue.

Well, I'm sure this thread will go nowhere.

None the less, need I remind you, be safe out there. Hire a pilot if you must do the deed!

Here's what not to do:

http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviat ... 8632&key=1

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/N4 ... leHigh.htm

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1994-19.html

I must be boring. I've never had the inkling.

Is coitus the only official way into the club? Does fellatio count? Not saying I know anyone who has done this, just asking.

svanarts wrote:

Magnet wrote:Does it have to be with another person ?

See the second post on this thread.

guess than answers my question.

OregonMaule wrote:Is coitus the only official way into the club? Does fellatio count? Not saying I know anyone who has done this, just asking.

Ask this guy: http://www.airaffair.com/Library/Archive/Part1/mile_high_crash

"...certain injuries to the pilot."