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Peter (Pewee) Kenelm Williams is currently residing in New Zealand, but is an Australian Engineer and Pilot from Foul Bay, South Australia. He graduated from the Christchurch Polytechnic in 1986 on his 4th attempt. Passing on the 1987 World Model Airplane Competition in order to focus his attention achieving complete literacy, he competed at the 1991 RC Winter World Series in the giant glider, where he finished 20th out of 18, and the miniature glider where he finished 44th out of 40. He recorded a DNF for normal glider.

Personal
Peter Williams has attributed celibacy as the key to him achieving such a high placing in the World Championships over the years. It was recognized at a young age not to push him to hard to succeed as he is very highly strung. This made his childhood difficult, and it was often commented that you would have to tie food around him just to get the family dog to play with him. He managed to overcome these challenges and was able to leave home at 45. Peter began a relationship after formulating a plan to pretend to be his brother, he managed to keep up the act long enough for his long suffering girlfriend to give birth. Two years after that they were married and he finally came clean. At this point his wife had given up and so continued with the marriage. In the top aviation magazine Flyers World he was know as Lady Di due to his constant appearances on the front cover - of which he was the editor.

Aviation
Peter took up model aircraft flying as a child and never looked back, competing domestically and internationally with limited success with very few placing's over his years competing. He had withstood much criticism of him competing against children with his toy airplanes, and in a magazine article with Model airplane news replied with his famous comments of "They are just jealous! when I go out there i'm on my own. My focus is to win, I don't care if the 8 and 9 year olds start crying, it just makes me want it more!"

Engineering
Williams learnt his trade as a direct response to breaking everything that he touched. Feeling inadequate initially, after 15 years of hard work he was nominated as engineer of the year, unfortunately he was unsuccessful in achieving that accolade and it was handed to another more suitable engineer, this failure to get engineer of the year was attributed to his constant fixes of a few pins and a bit of glue. For a period he was an engineering consultant on projects for NASA, Including the oxygen tanks on Apollo 13, Original optics on the Hubble Telescope and the Genesis (spacecraft) parachute system.