Virgilio Leret
Spanish air force officer (1902–1936) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 design. He is believed to be the first officer executed in the Spanish Civil War after a Nationalist-rebel takeover of the presidio of Melilla in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Leret and the second or maternal family name is Ruiz.