- Who
- E H Dunning
- What
- first
- Where
- United Kingdom (Scapa Flow)
- When
On 2 August 1917, Squadron Commander E H Dunning of the British Royal Naval Air Service, flying a Sopwith Pup, landed on the British aircraft carrier HMS Furious – a modified battlecruiser – while underway in Scapa Flow, Orkney. It was the first landing on a moving ship. He drowned in the cockpit of his aircraft a few days later, on 7 August 1917, during another attempt at such a landing, when his aircraft went overboard.
