Admiral-class carriers and an early carrier strike force

With modern foreknowledge in 1915, should the Admiral class be improved as battlecruisers or completed as aircraft carriers?

Complete them as carriers, then build a separate fast-battleship force and preserve the naval air arm needed to exploit them.

The proposed programme builds five Admiral-class carriers with deck-edge lifts and appropriate aviation facilities. Separate fast battleships would provide 30-knot speed and twelve 16.5-inch guns. Five of each major type are intended to keep roughly two operational at a time. The aircraft programme also depends on retaining naval control of aircraft carried at sea and of flying boats. With enough urgency, a carrier is imagined completing before the end of 1917. Suitable aerial torpedoes with stabilising fins and tension wires could then support a strike on Wilhelmshaven before the war ended. The timetable assumes access to later technical knowledge throughout the programme.