Could a fast carrier squadron accelerate naval aviation?

Would carriers in a 28-knot flying squadron gain a larger public role and bring the Fleet Air Arm under naval control sooner?

It could raise the carriers' profile and bring naval control of the Fleet Air Arm forward, allowing earlier attention to aircraft procurement and proposals for overseas factories.

Including carriers in the flying squadron and its global cruise could raise their public and institutional profile. Appointing a Rear Admiral Aircraft Carriers in 1928 would bring the post forward by about two years and might accelerate the settlement over control of naval aviation. Earlier naval control would let procurement battles concentrate on acquiring aircraft for the Fleet Air Arm. Ideas for overseas aircraft factories had appeared in position papers from individual officers, and an earlier settlement might give those proposals more time to develop. Supermarine, Fairey, and Blackburn factories in Ceylon could supply aircraft to the Royal Navy and potentially to British, Australian, and New Zealand air forces in the region. Engine production would remain the major question: a Rolls-Royce or Bristol shadow factory would determine which engines the regional factories could obtain.