Talk about flying the friendly skies.
Pilot Anthony Blake’s job involves aimlessly cruising the clouds in a twin-engine Cessna while, in the back of the plane, his passengers get frisky.
“As the plane sways,” he said of the lightweight aircraft, “I often know who is where and who moved first.”
For $995, couples can charter a Love Cloud jet for 45 minutes and get busy while Blake, 51, flies them 5,280 feet above Las Vegas. Should that not be enough time to get your propeller spinning, sessions range up to $1,495 for an hour and a half. Seat belts can be ditched two minutes after takeoff.
The Cessna is tricked out with a bed, red satin sheets and “sex position pillow,” but don’t expect to get too comfy: A twin mattress is all that will fit in the cabin.
Blake, who goes by “Captain Tony,” wears noise-canceling headphones and a curtain blocks his view of the action in the back.
Customers range from horny newlyweds to older couples in search of lost mojo to a pack of swingers from Europe (six people can be accommodated per flight).
He recalled two passengers “who had caught their spouses cheating — with each other.” So the jilted pair, after each signing their divorce papers, “met in Vegas without knowing each other. Upon arrival, the man was air-hugging her and they did not seem close,” Blake said. “After the flight, I photographed them with their tongues down each other’s throat. He took out her breast and they both flipped the bird. Then they sent the photos to their exes.”
There was also a guy whose wife surprised him with a Love Cloud flight, but the man had been drinking too much to complete his mission and ended up asking Blake to land the plane after just a few minutes.
“I felt bad and said I would comp a flight for them another time,” Blake said. “Next morning, he called at 9 o’clock and said, ‘My wife’s girlfriend is in town. Can the three of us come on board and get freaky?’ After the first 45 minutes, a text came from the wife and she asked for another half hour.
“I comped that, too,” Blake added. “The gentleman was having the time of his life back there. I didn’t want to screw it up.”
Hot and bothered passengers have left behind lingerie and sex toys.
Love Cloud and its flights to nowhere have been kicking around Nevada for some seven years, offering chaste flights centered around romantic dinners (staffed by a flight attendant) and even in-air wedding ceremonies as well as the Mile High adventures.
But things really took off five months ago when Blake and his business partner started offering trips in Las Vegas. Sometimes things start off traditional before going sky’s-the-limit — like the guy who proposed to his fiancée on the ground before, as Blake puts it, “consummating their engagement” in the clouds.
Blake said he’s never been invited to join in the fun, but wouldn’t abandon his joystick even if he was.
“It’s a one-pilot plane and I can’t leave the cockpit,” the pilot said. “I love sex, but I love flying even more.”
