The institutional argument becomes a practical carrier-design lesson. Marine engineers, ship operators, aviators, and aeronautical engineers shared only parts of the vocabulary needed to solve a carrier problem. An aviator with shipboard experience and a ship operator with aviation experience could translate between those groups. The observer branch and flying sections could provide these bridge figures. Their value lay in making the whole design team communicate, which was essential to producing an effective carrier.
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Carrier design needs naval and aviation translators
Carrier design required aviators, ship operators, marine engineers, and aeronautical engineers to share an operational language.