Tag: Edwin Dunning Squadron Commander

• Thursday, August 3rd 2017 - 21:20 UTC

  A century ago the first aircraft lands on the deck of a moving ship

  

  The 100th anniversary of the first time an aircraft touched down on the deck of a moving ship is to be marked. Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 August, 1917.