British future airpower visions did not begin with spatial dimensions (length, width/breadth, and height/depth) as their main theoretical framework. In fact, much of it can hardly be described as theory; it was more a set of “Visions [as] ideas that could not survive systematic preparation for authentication.” This is not to say that dimensional factors were not integrated into the thinking of the time. Like the ship, the aeroplane was seen as a tool operating in another dimension, and as such the theoretical construct of airpower in Britain was largely inspired by seapower in terms of the “special capabilities they have to offer and on the extent to which and the manner in which they operate alongside the other services.»