Earlier, Martin Gregorie wrote:

Is that book of interest still?

It's a good and rigorous survey of the glider design process. Of
course, much of it is dated. However, the general approach is still
valid.

The thing I like about it is that it gives insight into the thinking
of Stelio Frati, who designed some of the prettiest small airplanes
ever, and did it about fifty years ago. When you look at the diagrams
of how to use the method of tangents to develop fuselage
cross-sections, there's an embryonic slice of Falco staring out at
you.

BTW the site's worth a visit just to drool
over the Falco, a very pretty design.

Alfred Scott is my hero. Resurrecting the Falco was one of the finest
and most elegant things ever done for sport aviation. Not in terms of
quantity, but in quality, in Robert Pirsig's sense of the event in
which subject invents and envelops object.

Thanks, and best regards to all

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com