100 years of the RAF MOD 45163717
For this flight, his aircraft had its armament re-fitted and grab-ropes had been added under the lower wings and fuselage to ease the task of the waiting deck party.
Conditions on the day were gusty and the aircraft was blown backwards, damaging the tail plane. Later in the day, Dunning took off for another landing in a different aircraft but, on the third attempt, his aircraft slipped over the side of the deck as he tried to alight, having landed too far forward and too fast and he drowned before he could be rescued.
- Some of these images have had some dodging and burning done and have been retouched to remove detritus and dust and scratch marks only*
- Organization: RAF
- Object Name: H-299
- Category: MOD
- Supplemental Categories: Aircraft, Equipment, People, Historic
- Keywords: Landing, Action, Aircraft Carrier, HMS Furious, Sopwith Pup, Ocean, Water, Scenery, Landscape, Environment, Terrain, Black and White, B&W, Aircraft, Equipment, Historic, Royal Air Force, RAF, Historic Aircraft, biplane, Army, War, World War One, WWI, World War 1, RAF 100
- Country: At Sea
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