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Good evening all, As I introduce this build I type with a heavy heart as I mark the tenth anniversary of the death of my great friend and comrade in plastic, Peter Wright who died suddenly whist skiing of a heart attack at the age of only 52. I first met Pete in 1987 and we instantly hit it off, he was one of those people who only knew how to work hard and play hard. Over many years we spent a great deal of time together, traveling to shows, setting up the stand and often drinking far too much to over come the day's demands!! One of my lasting memories was of him asleep actually in the counter units after a very heavy Saturday night/ Sunday morning at the Nationals in Donnington in 1994 , we had great fun with the gang. Pete had a passion for everything he did and was meticulous and always industrious. For those of you that ever dealt with Aeroclub It was Pete who was the driving force behind taking, making and dispatching orders he cast virtually all of the white metal and his knowledge was encyclopaedic of the range , which ran to hundreds of items in white metal alone. He was an accomplished railway modeller and engineer producing and building fantastic white metal locomotives but in the aviation world it was US navy jets that were his love. At model shows he would disappear off to buy the latest release, only to return clutching a crop of USN Jets, A4's,A7, F8's and F14's but it was Phantoms that always won the day. I think at Telford one year over three days he acquired 10, mostly ESCI , to build in the bright colours of the F4's heyday and build them he did. So I am going to attempt to honour and remember my good friend with this build not in Pete's scale but I hope fitting to him. Rest easy - still missed...….
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