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Squadron Commander. Battles/wars. World War I. Awards. Distinguished Service Cross. Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), of the British Royal Naval Air Service, was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship.
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), of the British Royal Naval Air Service, was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship. Dunning was born in South Africa on 17 July 1892 the second child of Sir Edwin Harris Dunning of Jacques Hall, Bradfield, Essex, he was educated at Royal Naval Colleges ...
Edwin Harris Dunning. Casualty of the Great War,Edwin served as Squadron Commander in the Royal Naval Air Service.He was the second child of Sir Edwin Harris Dunning of Jacques Hall, Bradfield, Essex.
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Sep 20, 2017 · On August 2, Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, side-slipping his Pup over Furious’ flight deck at practically a hover, made the first airplane landing on a moving ship. During a subsequent attempt, however, his Pup bounced off the deck and went over the side. Dunning drowned.
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Jan 7, 2018 · EDWIN HARRIS DUNNING WAS BORN IN SOUTH AFRICA ON JULY 17, 1892. He was brought up in Eastbourne, England, and entered the Royal Navy as a cadet, being educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osbourne and Dartmouth. He served in the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I and flew from the seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal at Gallipoli in 1915 ...
Apr 28, 2018 · Edwin Harris Dunning was born in South Africa on the 17th July 1892, the second child of Sir Edwin Harris Dunning and was later educated at Royal Navy Colleagues in the United Kingdom. A very skilled aviator, he took to pioneering naval aviation.
Aug 2, 2013 · On this day 2 August 1917 Sqn Cdr Edwin Harris Dunning DSC lands his Sopwith Pup aboard HMS Furious; the first deck landing on a ship under way. On 7 August, he made one more successful landing in the same manner, but on his second attempt that day, in Pup N6452, the engine choked and the aircraft crashed off the starboard bow and he drowned.
