Rebuilding Royal Navy air power from 1934

What should a 1934 Fleet Air Arm rearmament plan prioritize?

He would secure powerful aircraft engines, accelerate a fighter, reshape treaty carrier categories and mass-produce improved carriers.

The first requirement is a dependable 2,000-horsepower aircraft engine and an accelerated gull-wing fighter program. He would then use the 1936 treaty negotiations to argue that carriers are essential for scouting, reconnaissance, commerce protection and maritime control. A lower-tonnage cruiser or escort-carrier category would protect fleet-carrier tonnage while allowing numerous cheaper decks. The building program would begin with an improved Ark Royal derivative using a similarly large hangar and an armoured flight deck, then continue at sustained volume.