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Forty-two years ago—on 2nd August 1917—the first deck landing on a ship under way was made. A special platform had been constructed on the battle cruiser Furious, and it was on this prototype flight deck that Squadron Commander E. H. Dunning made the first successful aeroplane landing aboard ship. On touching down, his aircraft—a Sopwith Pup—was restrained manually by the (presumably) willing hands of a large number of officers and men. Two days later a second attempt ended in disaster. But from this beginning, like so many initial steps forward in aviation, a sad one, grew the Fleet Air Arm as we know it today.
The majority of present-day Squadron pilots of the Fleet Air Arm have been brought up on the Mirror Landing Sight. This paper is a summary of a lecture given to the Glasgow Branch of the Society on 3rd November 1959.
* The majority of present-day Squadron pilots of the Fleet Air Arm have been brought up on the Mirror Landing Sight. This paper is a summary of a lecture given to the Glasgow Branch of the Society on 3rd November 1959.