Dorothy Rice Sims a mutual friend, George Biddle, and wrote in her 1938 autobiography, "Curiouser and Curiouser", "I inquired Waldo’s height—he was six feet two. This seemed a dignified height. I told George to produce Waldo, which he did. We got married in Madrid, in a German Methodist Church, with the American vice-consul, who was a Filipino, to make it legal.” A website using the name "Mile High Club" regards the "Club's" "founder" as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry as the "Club's" "founder", along with "socialite Mrs. Waldo Peirce" (Dorothy Rice Sims) citing their flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near
Mile high club in on people's interest in joining the club by offering special charter flights designed for the purpose or by selling souvenir certificates and other items. Some web sites also provide resources such as historical information about the club. Mile high club The mile-high club is slang for the people who have had sexual intercourse on board an aircraft. An alleged explanation for the act is the supposed vibration of the plane, which may lead to sexual arousal among men. Some say they have fantasies about pilots or flight attendants, or a fetish about planes themselves. For others, the appeal of