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
Crab, of all the ill-informed bolleaux you have posted on this forum, that sentence alone blows any credibility you may once have had to kingdom come. Get rid of the chips, old chap, your shoulders will feel much better for it.
By the way: Sir Walter Raleigh was Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University and Chair of English Literature at Oxford University. On the outbreak of the Great War he turned to the war as his primary subject. His finest book on the subject was the first volume of The War in the Air, which was an instant publishing success.