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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:Lawrence Sperry|Lawrence Sperry]], inventor of the autopilot, is [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20151218220743/http://milehighclub.com/about/founder.html generally recognized as the founder of the Mile High Club]. He was purportedly teaching a (married—and not to him) woman to fly when the plane crashed from an altitude of 500 feet; when he and his paramour were discovered in the nude, [[Refuge in Audacity|he claimed that they had lost their clothing in the crash]].
* The ''pilots'' doing this resulted in [http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1994-19.html this Darwin Award nomination]
* There was a possible case of this occurring shortly after the invention of the hot air balloon.
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