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.
La compagnia fallì, e lui non poté restituire il denaro, ed io ero il garante della nota. Quindi avevo un debito di 100.000 dollari, e notai che il premio Kramer per il volo a propulsione umana, che era in palio da 17 anni a quel tempo, era di 50.000 sterline, che al tasso di cambio faceva proprio 100.000 dollari.