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Steve and I had exchanged messages only a couple of days before he passed. It was all so sudden and unexpected.
The way I learned about the sad news was when his grandson left an R.I.P. message on his page on that fateful day, confirmed to me in the next few hours by his sister.
A few weeks ago, as I told him I had taken some distance from this forum, he kindly commented that "we've been missing your inputs", which was awfully nice a thing to say. It touched me even more so that, as some may recall, Steve and I had had our differences on this very forum a few years ago. Later on, however, I found out he was an amiable character who gladly took criticism, was able to admit a mistake (not everyone can) and also to move on once something had been sorted out for good.
I felt honored to be added to his team of proof-readers for his outstanding book on X-Fighters and X-Bombers.
Our last exchange was about the photo below. I was telling him that his new Mustang was quite a stretch from the old P-51 (a plane I knew he loved so much) and that made him laugh. I even suggested that he could apply the Rockwell International markings of Bob Hoover's yellow P-51 racer on his Ford, and his reply was: "Don't tempt me!"
R.I.P. Steve Pace. :'(
The way I learned about the sad news was when his grandson left an R.I.P. message on his page on that fateful day, confirmed to me in the next few hours by his sister.
A few weeks ago, as I told him I had taken some distance from this forum, he kindly commented that "we've been missing your inputs", which was awfully nice a thing to say. It touched me even more so that, as some may recall, Steve and I had had our differences on this very forum a few years ago. Later on, however, I found out he was an amiable character who gladly took criticism, was able to admit a mistake (not everyone can) and also to move on once something had been sorted out for good.
I felt honored to be added to his team of proof-readers for his outstanding book on X-Fighters and X-Bombers.
Our last exchange was about the photo below. I was telling him that his new Mustang was quite a stretch from the old P-51 (a plane I knew he loved so much) and that made him laugh. I even suggested that he could apply the Rockwell International markings of Bob Hoover's yellow P-51 racer on his Ford, and his reply was: "Don't tempt me!"
R.I.P. Steve Pace. :'(
