The Royal Navy helped teach Morse because it already had signaling expertise that land forces needed. Long-range navigation was another naval skill that transferred into aviation. Royal Navy observers' experience of carrier operations over the sea is connected here with the personnel needed for RAF Pathfinder work. Night operations such as Taranto explain why navigation in darkness mattered to naval aviation. Former British and American naval personnel also carried radio and navigation skills into interwar Pan Am flying boats.
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Naval signaling skills moved into military and civil aviation
Naval Morse and long-range navigation experience supplied skills later used by land forces, RAF Pathfinders, and interwar flying boats.