 The firm's chief of aerodynamic research, John Chaplin, promptly met with Cockerell and became quickly enthusiastic about the project.Finding the existing experimental data and methodology to have been sound, Chaplin favourably reported back to the Saunder-Roe's chief engineer.Following a series of wind tunnel, tow tank, and free-flight tests, alongside use of a new two-dimensional test rig as well as use of the original research, the firm published two reports in May 1958.