What aviation first was reportedly accomplished by Lawrence Sperry & Dorothy Sims in 1916?
The fact that there are two of them is relevant.
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Mile high club?
Well they probably weren’t actually a mile up, but yes. They set the autopilot and managed a quickie.
I’m surprised they already had autopilots in 1916.
There you go. Learned something.
It would have been fairly rudimentary. A gyroscope and heading & attitude indicators that enabled level flight without constantly having hands on the controls. Still, they would have ad to have been quick.