Old Geezer Who Builds Airplanes

I dreamt that I was introduced to this real old geezer who built his own airplane. I was vaguely considering doing the same in this dream and so someone thought I should meet him, claimed he was the expert. Apparently, this plane that he had built was a real high performance plane but somewhat unconventional using advanced materials in it's construction.

When I talked to him he was extremely enthusiastic about it but one thing that puzzled me was that he wore these giant goggles while flying which seemed very odd because it was not an open cockpit design.