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Published April 26, 2018 at 800 × 525 in The first man to land on an aircraft carrier at sea was a South African

Squadron Commander E H Dunning climbs out of his aircraft on the flying-off deck of HMS FURIOUS after the first successful landing on an aircraft carrier underway.

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