Owning a Victa Airtourer I heard on the grapevine that he did some testing on the version with the 130hp engine, so I wrote to him to see if he remembered anything about it. I got a lovely handwritten note back in which he expressed the view that the Airtourer was one of the best handling light aircraft he'd flown up to that time. I believe the work was being done on behalf of an offshoot of Miles Aircraft but I may have got that bit scrambled. Anno Domini and all that. He was a schoolboy hero of mine and I got his book as a form prize which didn't please the headmaster as we were supposed to go for an academic tome. He also used to entertain us by doing low passes down the beach at Blackpool on the Hunters being built at Squires Gate (Blackpool)