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Revision as of 01:39, 14 July 2007
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17th July 1892 - 7th August 1917), of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship.
Dunning landed his Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney on 2nd August 1917. He was killed five days later during another landing on the ship.
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