• Virgilio Leret Ruiz (23 August 1902 – 18 July 1936) was a Spanish air force commander, writer and pioneer of aeronautical engineering with a patented jet-engine...
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  • June 2000) was a Spanish writer and journalist. Her husband, Captain Virgilio Leret Ruiz, was executed after opposing the July 1936 military uprising in...
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  • into the engine and accumulated in pools. In Spain, pilot and engineer Virgilio Leret Ruiz was granted a patent for a jet engine design in March 1935. Republican...
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    the scope of his own filing. In Spain, air-force pilot and engineer Virgilio Leret Ruiz had been granted a patent for a jet engine in March 1935, and Republican...
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    development continued at a slow pace. In Spain, pilot and engineer Virgilio Leret Ruiz was granted a patent for a jet engine design in March 1935. Republican...
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    major of Melilla, the government delegate, the aerodrome commander, Virgilio Leret Ruiz, and all those who resisted the rebellion were shot. When General...
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  • company to develop his design and Power Jets, Ltd is created. 1935 Virgilio Leret Ruiz is granted a patent (submitted January 1935, granted March 1935)...
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    troops defending the post surrendered, the base commanders, Commander Virgilio Leret Rui and Second Lieutenants, Armando Gonzalez Corral and Luis Calvo Calavia...
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    Transport had accepted the proposal to name the Melilla airport after Virgilio Leret, who invented the jet engine which he patented in 1935. The local government...
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    Benítez Carlos Núñez Mazas Ángel Pastor Velasco Miguel Núñez de Prado Virgilio Leret Ruiz Manuel Cascón Briega Insignia Emblem (1931–1934) (1934–1936) (1936–1939)...
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