The documents in this large volume describes the earliest
beginnings of naval aviation when the potential of airpower became
apparent to both military and naval men. The documents are largely
from the National Archives, with a small minority from personal
collections in repositories such as Kings College London and the
National Maritime Museum. During the years after 1906 technical
development was very rapid. The new machines had to be weighed
against the possibilities afforded by naval airships. From May 1912
air service was the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps. Eleven
months after the outbreak of the First World War the Admiralty
turned it into the Royal Naval Air Service. Though the role of the
aeroplane in naval operations in the First World War was limited,
technical development continued. Successful flights from warships
made it certain that the aircraft would replace the seaplane as the
principal heavier-than-air craft. A majority of the First World War
documents record the administrative battle for the control of the
Naval Air Service. On 1 April 1918 the Naval Air Service was, after
eighteen months of heated debate, amalgamated with the Royal Flying
Corps to form the Royal Air Force. The naval units of the RAF came
to be called the 'Fleet Air Arm' from 1924. In 1937 the government
announced that full administrative control of the Fleet Air Arm was
to return to the Admiralty. A second volume of documents for this
period is in active preparation.
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