§ 1. Mr. Sydney Irvingasked the Minister of Supply what progress has been made with the taxing, flight, and hovering trials of the jet-powered research aircraft SC-1 designed for vertical take-off and landing; and when he anticipates these will be completed
§ Mr. Aubrey JonesThe aircraft has successfully completed taxi-ing trials and first flew in conventional forward flight on 2nd April, 1957. It has since made a number of flights to prove the arrangements made for forward propulsion. The hovering trials will be started later this year.