Oscar Wilde renewal. He immediately wrote to the Society of Jesus requesting a six-month Catholic retreat; when the request was denied, Wilde wept. "I intend to be received into the Catholic Church before long", Wilde told a journalist who asked about his religious intentions. He spent his last three years impoverished and in exile. He took the name "Sebastian Melmoth", after Saint Sebastian and the titular character of "Melmoth the Wanderer" (a Gothic novel by Charles Maturin, Wilde's great-uncle). Wilde wrote two long letters to the editor of the "Daily Chronicle", describing the brutal conditions of English prisons and advocating penal reform.
Garrison Melmoth tank, with a total of of fuel carried, giving a range of . To make use of the long endurance an autopilot was fitted, for comfort the cockpit was in width. Its span rectangular wing with an aspect ratio of 6:1, employed an NACA 65A316 airfoil, mounted double-slotted flaps and adjustable-incidence ailerons. The engine was a Continental IO-360-A producing , driving a Hartzell constant speed propeller of diameter. Control was via center control sticks. The Melmoth was registered with the US FAA in the "Experimental-Amateur-built" category. Over time the aircraft was modified to include IFR avionics, an automatic fuel tank