"Africa" transferred her flight equipment to her sister ship in May. Based on the 1912 flight experiments on "Africa", "Hibernia", and battleship , the Royal Navy concluded that shipboard aircraft were desirable for spotting and other fleet duties, but also that a fixed runway on a battleship interfered too much with the firing of the guns and that recovering seaplanes that had landed in a seaway was too difficult to be practical as a routine operation. But shipborne aviation had begun in the Royal Navy aboard "Africa", and by 1917 would become an important part of British fleet operations.