On August 2, 1917, Squadron Commander Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup, a British single-seater fighter biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow.

The 100th anniversary of the first time an aircraft touched down on the deck of a moving ship has been marked. Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa ...

Squadron Commander E H Dunning attempting to land his Sopwith Pup on the flying-off deck of HMS Furious, Scapa Flow, 7 August 1917. Dunning was killed in operations when his aircraft veered off ...

The HMS Furious was originally a Courageous-class cruiser that was intended to support operations as a part of the Baltic Project, in which a large force of infantry, either British or Russian ...