Sperry is also credited with developing the artificial horizon still used on most aircraft in the early 21st century.

[3] In 1918, he married film actress Winifred Allen, and Flying Magazine reported that they were "the first couple to take an aerial honeymoon" after they flew from Amityville to Governors Island.

[4] On 13 December 1923, Sperry took off amid fog in a Verville-Sperry M-1 Messenger from the United Kingdom headed for France but never reached his destination.

A website using the name Mile High Club regards the "Club's" "founder" as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry,[6] along with "socialite Mrs. Waldo Peirce" (Dorothy Rice Sims) [7] citing their flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near New York in November 1916.

The Lawrence Sperry Award is presented by the AIAA for a notable contribution made by a young person, age 35 or under, to the advancement of aeronautics or astronautics.