Editing Air Ministry (section)

===The Air Committee===
On 13 April 1912, less than two weeks after the creation of the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (which initially consisted of both a naval and a military wing), an Air Committee was established to act as an intermediary between the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] and the [[War Office]] in matters relating to aviation.  The new Air Committee was composed of representatives of the two war ministries, and although it could make recommendations, it lacked executive authority.  The recommendations of the Air Committee had to be ratified by the [[Admiralty Board (United Kingdom)|Admiralty Board]] and the [[Imperial General Staff]] and, in consequence, the Committee was not particularly effective.  The increasing separation of army and naval aviation from 1912 to 1914 only exacerbated the Air Committee's ineffectiveness and the Committee did not meet after the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]].