Wow! That's pretty cool. Seeing my design on someone else's computer on MY computer. Who woulda ever thunk it?
You guys don't actually doubt that Rob Hilburger from Playboy contacted me, do you? Everything I have said is true. I was a controller at Boeing Field in Seattle, where the Museum of Flight is, and did meet Buzz Aldrin. As a matter of fact I will try to find the small photo of me talking to him and scan it in and post it. My buddy WAS married to Veronica Gamba. He also wrote a book entitled "Keeping unusual animals as pets", which you can find on the Internet if you do a search. He was also on the Gong Show and did a number with a "Lizard on my Head". I never saw it but some of you might have.

When I was in the US Navy in Liverpool, England in 1978 I was driven around by a cabbie who said he was Ringo Starr's cousin. He said the Beatles never did anything financially for relatives, except bring everyone to the wedding of Paul MCartney and Linda. I also had a lady on my boat in Northern Idaho in 1991 who was in a bikini contest in Panama City, Florida with Marla Maples. Marla won first place and my friend Marina won second. Marina also ran into Stevie Nicks in a restroom in Arizona, if I remember correctly at a shopping mall.
Back in about 1993 I was at a local ShopKo store and lo and behold there was David Soul Christmas shopping for his kids. There was an insecticide spill in the store and everyone had to leave, but he was allowed to go through and check his stuff out. Everyone wondered if they were making a movie in the area, but I guess his kids live here with his ex-wife. Our Air Traffic Controller lawsuit against the FAA is in the US Court of Federal Claims in D.C. The court was started at the urging of President Lincoln. How about that! My great, great, grandmother was Prudence Lincoln, Abraham's cousin. Little did he know that he was starting a court that would make the government pay a decendant of his cousin $135,000 in back pay and attorney fees. Like I said, truth is stranger than fiction.
One of these days I will give each and every one of you a ride in the Playboy Jet. All I can say right now is that they are VERY interested, and I am very confident that it will be done. I am surprised that they haven't thought of it before, but maybe they were not excited about a design until now.
If the FAA would have set my pay correctly I would now be making $120,000 per year in Seattle. The Federal Judge can ORDER the FAA to hire me back, despite the hiring freeze. He can also make them pay me all the money I would have made if I wouldn't have had to quit to use part of my retirement fund for the lawsuit. I expect to get half of what I would have made in the last 2.5 years. So let's see, that's $135,000, plus $140,000, plus the job back at $120,000 per year, plus the other controllers have agreed to pay me a percentage of their back pay, so that's another $100,000, and then I'll charge Playboy a fee for the design rights, and I will take a percentage of each full-size kit sale, and after I retire from the FAA in two years I will take charge of the StarJet production company, working for Playboy, or maybe go fly for the regional airlines for ten years. Haven't decided on that one yet. Oh, by the way, when I and the other controllers have a BIG party in Las Vegas, each with an average of $80,000 in back pay, I'll invite all who are on this thread right now! Pay for your airline ticket but everything else is FREE!