Breguet's Crash file #7

Breguet · 31 March 2007, 06:49 PM

Because this is a famous aircraft I want more information that just what it is - that is if you want the full point........

berman · 31 March 2007, 07:56 PM

Sopwith 2F.I brought aboard after ditching in the sea

Gregvan · 31 March 2007, 08:02 PM

Sqn Cdr E H Dunning's Sopwith Pup N6452, after his fatal attempt at landing on the deck of the HMS Furious on 7 August 1917.

Gregvan · 31 March 2007, 08:13 PM

And more...

We all know that Dunning was the first pilot to successfully land on a carrier deck, when he landed Pup N6453 on the deck of the Furious on 2 August 1917 (with a lot of help from his friends, a deck party of the other pilots who seized parts of the machine manually and helped bring it down).On 7 August Dunning landed a second time on the Furious, but his Pup (N6453) was blown backwards by strong winds and the elevators were damaged when they struck the coaming of the below deck hangar hatch.Dunning then took up N6452 and on his attempt to land, he touched down too far forward and waved off the "handling party" and tried to take off again. However, the engine choked and the Pup stalled and plunged over the starboard side of the ship. The impact apparently stunned Dunning, and he drowned. The photo shows the wreckage after it was pulled from the sea, and you can see that N6452 had no flotation bags fitted under the wings.

This is one of a series of remarkable photos detailing the whole story.

Greg

MattyBoy · 1 April 2007, 11:18 AM

There are more photos of this incident in Major W. G. Moore's excellent autobiography 'Early Bird'.

Breguet · 1 April 2007, 11:40 PM

Greg takes the lead:

At the end of round 7:

02.2 Gregvan02.0 Eric
01.0 Gilles
00.8 Colin Owers