If you haven’t already heard of him, Peter Garrison’s Technicalities column in Flying Magazine is fascinating and always beautifully written. This is one of the planes he designed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Melmoth_2?wprov=sft...I don’t fly but my dad was a pilot, and he and I would sometimes visit Peter’s hangar at Whiteman airport while he was building Melmoth 2.
