Mr Con, Nick Lappos is a Vietnam vet and more recently a test pilot for Sikorsky, and the program manager for the S-92. He has forgotten more about helicopter engineering than I will learn if I live to be 95 (which is next week, actually). He writes lucidly and entertainingly (for example in Helicopter World a couple of years ago; I didn't know him from Adam and wrote a letter to them saying how interesting the article was). Religions have been started that worship lesser deities.
But, and here's the killer punchline, he's one of us. He gets involved in debates on PPRuNe. He takes the time to seriously answer questions from forms of aviation life that would lose arm-wrestling competitions with an amoeba two falls out of three (me). He has a sense of humour. He comes over as a thoroughly nice chap.
So, I suspect Mr Lee has taken the opportunity to satirize the awe in which many PPRuNers hold him. Ain't going to make no never mind to Nick. Satirize away, Rich!