Fisher, the Fleet Air Arm, and a gull-wing Seafire

Would British naval aviation improve if Fisher returned to lead the Royal Navy in the 1930s?

Yes. Fisher's enthusiasm for aircraft would make development of a carrier-oriented gull-wing Spitfire or Seafire difficult to resist.

A hypothetical Fisher return gives British naval aviation an energetic advocate. The specific example puts a gull-wing Spitfire or Seafire concept before him in 1937-38. His personality makes its development for the Fleet Air Arm appear difficult to resist. This is a proposed response to the aircraft concept, whose development is part of the counterfactual.