Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Royal Naval Air Service

Also searchable as naval air service, naval wing, RNAS.

Related time notes

  1. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:51:02Armoured cars and boats within the Royal Naval Air ServiceChapter
  2. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:55:53The naval armoured forces behind early tank developmentNotable Point
  3. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    20:37Naval aviation, armoured cars and the Landships CommitteeChapter
  4. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:17:18Why was the Royal Navy slow to adopt deck-edge lifts?Q&A
  5. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    9:33Aircraft and carrier shortages limit further coastal raidsNotable Point
  6. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    36:54Sueter supplies ideas and Beatty secures political supportNotable Point
  7. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    12:25The RNAS in Belgium and the recovery of downed pilotsNotable Point
  8. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    32:17Hermes, Eagle, and the Royal Navy's carrier experimentsChapter
  9. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    56:43Who joined the Royal Naval Air Service?Q&A
  10. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:04:17How the Royal Navy rehearsed carrier operations ashoreQ&A
  11. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:53:55Carrier success transforms fleets, bases, and air-service politicsChapter
  12. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:28:39Could Handley Page bombers mine Wilhelmshaven after the raid?Q&A
  13. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    1:17:04The RNAS armoured car as genuine off-the-shelf procurementNotable Point
  14. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    2:51RNAS armored cars turned field experience into procurementChapter
  15. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:35:43Procurement systems shaped battlefield capabilityChapter
  16. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:15:17The recalled North Sea losses of the RNASQ&A
  17. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    45:46Naval aviators improvised the Rolls-Royce armored carChapter
  18. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    50:00Rugged cars supported an expanding naval armored forceNotable Point
  19. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    57:38Why the armored car counts as an independent reinventionNotable Point
  20. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    2:12:37The Humber and the influence attributed to naval armored carsNotable Point
  21. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:05:29Three modern books for Admiral FisherQ&A
  22. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:11:36Warning Fisher about control of naval aviationNotable Point
  23. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    47:45Naval engineering methods shape the first tanksChapter
  24. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    48:52Spare-engine accounting and the case for an independent air forceNotable Point
  25. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    3:43:43Why interwar states unified naval and military air powerQ&A
  26. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    28:26What the Sopwith Cuckoo was designed to doQ&A
  27. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    1:19:43A forward base for air and anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
  28. The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin
    45:16The old argument over indivisible air powerNotable Point
  29. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    7:51Tsingtao and the case for naval air strikeNotable Point
  30. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    1:05:26Combat-proven carriers protect naval aviation from the RAF mergerNotable Point
  31. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    2:24Dive-bombing origins resist a simple national claimNotable Point
  32. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    2:14:09Naval aviation under a longer Battenberg-Jellicoe successionNotable Point
  33. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    32:38W.12 reconnaissance and mobile seaplane supportChapter
  34. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    1:35:18A better engine for the Blackburn SkuaQ&A
  35. HMS Ben My Chree(1908/1915): A Soaring Service with a Legacy of Fire Risk Managment
    46:24William Wedgwood Benn's aviation service precedes politicsNotable Point
  36. The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War
    1:28What the RNAS might have preserved without the RAF mergerNotable Point
  37. The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War
    2:04The RNAS advantage in engines and spare partsNotable Point
  38. The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War
    25:20The Cuxhaven Raid as an early carrier air operationChapter
  39. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    10:30British naval aviation and service procurementChapter
  40. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    14:13Interservice rivalry and the Royal Air ForceChapter
  41. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    16:22Britain's commanding naval-air lead in 1914Chapter
  42. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    58:13The Bristol Scout and aviation's rapid wartime changeChapter
  43. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    0:40Reading carrier design as evidence of doctrineChapter
  44. Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 6
    29:34Regular orders sustain an aircraft-design ecosystemChapter
  45. Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers
    29:00HMS Hermes and the struggle to organize naval air powerChapter
  46. Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers
    41:48Ben-my-Chree's torpedo attack and design legacyChapter
  47. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    0:43Why the Sopwith Cuckoo marks a carrier-aircraft turning pointChapter
  48. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    18:07Murray Sueter's demanding 1916 torpedo-aircraft requirementChapter
  49. Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    2:52:12An earlier war end and naval aviationQ&A
  50. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    44:48What the 1946 annual asked navies to learn from warNotable Point
  51. The Landship Story
    22:36Royal Naval Air Service armoured cars provide a precedentNotable Point
  52. The Landship Story
    34:27Could the RNAS have deployed the first tanks?Notable Point
  53. What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?
    24:52RAF formation, service politics, and logisticsNotable Point
  54. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    0:59A naval air arm retained in 1918Chapter
  55. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    10:33The RNAS already had a global naval roleChapter
  56. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    12:34The Fifth Sea Lord puts aviation at the Admiralty tableNotable Point
  57. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    14:26Naval logistics as an aviation advantageNotable Point
  58. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    16:47Engine accounting shaped the case for a unified air forceNotable Point
  59. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    21:41Aircraft as an anti-submarine patrol toolNotable Point
  60. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    28:00A politically plausible fleet-air compromiseChapter
  61. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    0:49The counterfactual: RNAS fleet units stay navalChapter
  62. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    4:46Where the naval aviation boundary fallsQ&A
  63. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    8:12Why naval logistics changes aircraft procurementNotable Point
  64. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    12:23Why this does not create the Japanese service modelQ&A
  65. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    15:32Why British aircraft used French enginesQ&A
  66. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    19:45A major air service needs a voice at the AdmiraltyChapter
  67. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    25:44Engineering culture divided the RNAS from the RFCNotable Point
  68. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    29:05Did RFC accounting ignore spare parts?Q&A
  69. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    35:21Would Dominion air forces inherit better support?Q&A
  70. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    42:20RNAS patrols against U-boats in 1917Notable Point
  71. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    53:40Emergency aircraft spares cross the Channel by destroyerNotable Point
  72. Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches
    1:12:28Why did capital-ship Marines carry towed artillery?Q&A
  73. 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)
    47:30Keeping shipboard aviation under naval commandNotable Point
  74. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    39:12Royal Navy personnel on the Western FrontQ&A
  75. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    54:18Why the Royal Naval Air Service fielded armored carsQ&A
  76. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    2:31:01Admiral-class carriers and an independent naval air armNotable Point
  77. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    1:24:22Beatty's political miscalculation over naval aviationNotable Point
  78. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    4:52:40Britain enters World War II without an independent RAFQ&A
  79. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions
    34:03RNAS, RFC, and the origins of RAF ranksQ&A
  80. A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War
    14:43Cuxhaven and early seaplane-carrier operationsChapter
  81. A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War
    19:23The Royal Navy's possible case for retaining carrier aviationNotable Point
  82. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z
    6:33Churchill and the carrier construction pauseNotable Point
  83. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p3/4 - Tanks
    2:03RNAS armoured cars lead to the Landships CommitteeChapter
  84. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    0:01Churchill pushes the Royal Naval Air Service into beingChapter
  85. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    1:30Early RNAS roles from reconnaissance to armoured carsNotable Point
  86. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    2:21Air defence makes the naval air service too largeChapter
  87. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    3:37RAF formation and the Fleet Air Arm problemNotable Point
  88. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    7:08The RNAS learns to fight the established branchesNotable Point
  89. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    7:47How the RFC combined Army and naval aviation in 1912Chapter
  90. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    11:27Churchill's enthusiasm gives naval aviation political momentumNotable Point
  91. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    12:14RNAS growth shapes the balance inside the new RAFChapter
  92. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    1:02:35Frederick Bowhill and Coastal Command's maritime leadershipNotable Point
  93. Bruships 44: Strategy
    1:55:12The Flycatcher's long service and the RAF's inherited procurement systemNotable Point
  94. Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys
    23:47The 1946 annual turns wartime experience into lessonsChapter
  95. The Fairey Story - Part 1 of 4: The Company
    2:18Fairey begins with an Admiralty-backed wartime orderChapter
  96. The Fairey Story - Part 1 of 4: The Company
    10:40The Fairey F.2 outruns its operational settingChapter
  97. The Fairey Story - Part 1 of 4: The Company
    16:46The F.2 reflects the RNAS home-defence burdenNotable Point
  98. The Fairey Story Anew...
    12:51Fairey's wartime origins in naval aircraft productionChapter
  99. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    37:00The naval aviation cost of 1918Chapter
  100. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    0:53From Leeds workshop to naval aircraft makerChapter
  101. Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?
    29:50Why the RNAS could not preserve a separate carrier force in 1918Chapter
  102. Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?
    47:45Royal Naval Air Service logistics as an operational advantageNotable Point
  103. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    48:17The RNAS armoured trains receive a cautious postwar answerQ&A