The Boulton Paul Sea Lance is identified as an aircraft from the alternate-history setting Against All Odds. In that setting, the Centaurus-powered aircraft is replaced by the Barracuda and Spearfish from 1942. The comparison leads back to Britain's actual Barracuda development programme. That programme's problems are placed in Air Ministry decisions during 1937-38 and the bargaining that continued after the Fleet Air Arm regained naval control in 1939.
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The fictional Sea Lance and the real Barracuda programme
The invented Sea Lance prompts a comparison with Britain's actual Barracuda programme and the Air Ministry decisions that disrupted it.