The company did not succeed, and he couldn't pay the money back, and I was the guarantor of the note. So, I had a $100,000 debt, and I noticed that the Kramer prize for human-powered flight, which had then been around for -- (Laughter) -- 17 years at the time, was 50,000 pounds, which, at the exchange rate, was just about 100,000 dollars.
A empresa não foi avante e ele não podia reembolsar o empréstimo. Eu era o fiador, por isso fiquei com uma dívida de 100 000 dólares. Reparei que o prémio Kramer para o voo a propulsão humana... (Risos) ... que, na altura, se calculava em 17 anos, era de 50 000 libras, o que, à taxa do câmbio, era cerca de 100 000 dólares.