Guys, I know a lot of what Tracey is writing sounds unbelievable, and I myself would have been questioning his credibility if I had myself directly not known otherwise, but sometimes, incredible things happen to ordinary people Leave the guy alone and give him the benefit of the doubt here. Why does everyone have to be so cruel… I guess typical of the arrogant elitist jet community here on RCU , if not in the whole country !!
As of the past few months I have been personally and very directly dealing with certain business ventures in conjunction with Playboy Enterprises, Inc. as well as their licensing division, also including a number of manufacturing vendors designing and producing Playboy brand merchandise. My involvement is mostly focused on Playboy’s online marketing and e-commerce initiatives, including a near term deployment of the new Playboy online shopping site. I had first heard of the Starjet when I saw the proposal for putting a small souvenir model into the product database which is to be pushed out on the new site. Since I am in the hobby this sparked my interest immediately ! At first I though it was just a toy, and a neat play toy at best, however this past July while in a financing and marketing meeting I directly spoke to Linda Harvard who is on charge of all of Playboys financial ventures and commitments. I was told how over $25mil has actually been set aside and budgeted for the span of the following 4 – 5 years for the funding of the full scale Starjet development, and promotional marketing. There is even talk of funding a potential air show aerobatic team, and Chandy Clanton has already indicated a committed interest in not only being a formation leader but also for a potential spread with the Starjet in a future issue of the magazine. Now here is the most amazing bit of info I have , and I might be crossing over the line here by divulging it, but Hef himself has also thrown around the idea of bringing in Burt Ruttan and his team to assist with the development and manufacture, who himself is tremendously impressed with the Starjet’s ingenious design, as well as its beautiful flowing appearance. Carol Devine has already submitted job placement offers to members of Ruttan’s team some of whom were directly involved in building Space Ship One ! wow !
I do have to say that Tracey’s Starjet is not the only aviation related venture Playboy has taken. There is already a bikini skydiving team in training for one thing, and as for actual aircraft, there are at least two other visionary designers who are also being funded to develop full scale aircraft for Playboy. I am under the understanding that Cleo Wilson over at Playboy will be holding a phone conference with Playboy board members as well as key shareholders and announcing what the official deal is with a lot of these. I also know Cleo has been very busy lately putting together a
PR wire release on all this, so hopefully soon you will be seeing all this on the news, and associated entertainment channels.
I hope I do not get myself in trouble by publicly divulging this info, and actually I’m surprised Tracey has not been told to keep hush yet himself by the execs involved. There is a lot of $ and time that has been spent over the past months on this project, and I’m sure Playboy would not want to have their thunder taken away from their planned public announcements. Only reason I’m chiming in on here is because I can not longer take seeing you all unfoundedly mocking poor Tracey … isn’t that against RCU policy ? I think its time some of the culprits get banned from the site for this , especially Easytiger and David Reid ! how dare you !!
Tracey, I’m scheduled to attend the Mile High party being held at Hef’s mansion coming up this May. Hopefully I can meet you in person there ! it would be an honor !
You know, its funny you had mentioned Tom Cruise before.. it just so happens that it is through Paul Bloch his former publicist that I got to meet Christie Hefner, who in turn brought me on board with the internet ventures team !! wow ! small world !