...furthermore, it may have been important to move the LOE inland, away from active operations at sea(TW08 or otherwise) because a 100 mile range testing of Navy electronics might have unintended consequences and/or outright interference.
I think it was the Navy that once opened all the garage doors in the San Fransisco bay area by accident.
What would be so difficult about landing on a moving ship? If both ship and strat are moving in the same direction at the same speed, I would think that a dropped rope from the strat to a waiting Deck hand abord the ship would make the landing child's plan. When I was a young teenage boy we would move back and forth from moving cars without stopping. Go Bucs Tojaam The Pigskin Tout