"When a sailor learns to fly, he remains a sailor, and the air for him is merely the roof of the sea." Sir Walter Raleigh, ‘War in the Air’ 1922.
Is there another Sir Walter Raleigh then? The one I think of certainly wasn't around in 1922
I love the idea that someone thinks all the Naval Aviators have spent long years at sea before they start their pilot/observer training and that they therefore bring something other than a few months at Dartmouth to the Sea Power party
Most of the ones I ever flew with did everything they could to get a shore appointment to avoid going to sea.