Avgas172, now you're talking!! Bray is a legend. I spent many a cool Ipswich night at Willowbank watching Victor push the envelope
As a teenager i would hear the big man working on his engines from almost 2 km's away on a Sunday morning and he would then allow me to hang around his workshop and watch and learn.
Later I spent 5 years work on my ZD Fairlane. Full nut and bolt rotisserie restoration down to the last flake of paint. That car was better than the day it left the blue oval showroom, even the doors closed better than an 'off the factory floor' version back in 71.
Pity Victor didn't take an interest in aircraft
There are GA aircraft out there that have been maintained, massaged, restored and in a condition better than a European fashion models breasts!
We are talking aircraft that would exceed any safety/mechanical/maintenance condition one could conjure up in a CAsA back room legal department.
CAsA's methods and wisdom actually reflects its leaders quite well - Old, outdated, out of touch and worthy of a rubbish bin.