Keeping a naval seaplane network alive

To preserve naval flying within the RAF settlement, the proposal describes seaplanes as Admiralty communications assets for distant stations. The label would give the aircraft a routine naval purpose without openly recreating an independent air arm. Operations on the China Station, elsewhere in the Far East, and in South America would place them where the RAF's interwar presence was limited and close scrutiny less likely. Communications work could expand into reconnaissance and sustain aircrew, maintenance, and command experience. Kept modest in name but continuous in practice, the network could become a shadow or nascent Coastal Command.