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 $100,000 debt, and I noticed that the Kramer prize for human-powered flight, which had then been around for -- (Laughter) -- 17 years at the time, was 50,000 pounds, which, at the exchange rate, was just about 100,000 dollars.
A empresa não teve sucesso, e ele não podia pagar o empréstimo, e eu era o avalista. Assim, eu tinha US$ 100.000 de dívida, e eu soube que o prêmio Kramer para vôo por força humana, que estava em aberto por aproximadamente -- 17 anos naquele tempo, era de £50.000, o que, ao câmbio da época, era aproxidamente US$ 100.000.