Who's Who in Philippine Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering?

Here is a post I would like to see being participated by all Filipino graduates, not only of Aeronautical Engineering but also of Aerospace Engineering, who have worked their way up the ladder, filling important positions in the firms, agencies or companies they are working with. I place no strict criteria here for one to be able to be included in the list, except as stated above. I don't restrict the list to registered Aeronautical Engineers only, for I know there are graduates of Aerospace Engineering out there who are doing great; likewise, I would like to include those graduates of Aeronautical Engineering who are unregistered, as long as they meet the minimum criteria.

I welcome any suggestions you would send in, to improve the list. The entry would be the name of the person and his personal background, educational attainment, employment history, trainings and seminars attended, and achievement in the field of Philippine Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering, if there's any, or any contribution which makes this whole world worth living for.

So let us start. And the first on the list will be...hmmm, the one who suggests this.

The Making of the Defiant 300

Aeroscope Dec 2003

Here's another article I wrote, published in the Aeroscope Magazine in December 2003. It's about a little bit of history of the Defiant 300, how it was made and who the different companies and agencies that contributed to the making of the aircraft.

Remembering the Defiant 300 aircraft



Remembering the name



Aeroscope March 1989

 I have posted here the article I wrote for Aeroscope Magazine in March 1989, one year after the Defiant 300 aircraft prototype successfully flew in February 1988, that was 22 years ago. Capt. Panfilo V. Villaruel Jr., was the pilot; he's also the project director who later became the chief of the former Air Transportation Office (ATO) then went on to head the Philippine Aerospace Development Corporation (PADC). He was involved in the NAIA Tower incident and was killed during the takeover. As far as his contribution to developing the local aircraft design and construction, Captain Villaruel's legacy remains as one of the most outstanding feats in the field of Philippine aeronautical engineering.

I was one of a group of young Filipino aeronautical engineers who were imbued with the idealistic notion that we could help develop the local aircraft manufacturing industry in the country by building an aircraft prototype of our own design. Well, we did build it and the Captain did fly it but we're still nowhere on the road to establishing the local aircraft manufacturing base. Here's the saga of the Defiant 300 aircraft.