Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz

Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz ( born October 7, 1897 in Estella, Navarre, † August 23, 1936 in Madrid) was a Spanish airline pilot and politician.

Ruiz de Alda joined at the age of 15 years in the Spanish army and graduated from the Artillery Academy in Segovia, after the pilot school in Getafe and founded the Compañía Española de Trabajos Fotogramétricos Aéreos ( CETFA ).

He was the co-pilot of the Plus Ultra aircraft during the Atlantic crossing of 1926. The Plus Ultra launched on January 22, of Palos de la Frontera in the province of Huelva and landed on 26 January in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It stops in Gran Canaria, Cape Verde, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo were inserted. The distance of 10,270 kilometers was completed in 59 hours and 39 minutes. The other pilot of the aircraft was Ramón Franco, brother of General Francisco Franco. Together with Ramón Franco he wanted 16 umqueren the world in a Dornier Do the preparations for it but failed 1928.

Ruiz de Alda in 1931, along with José Antonio Primo de Rivera co-founder and founding chairman of the fascist Falange party small. After emerging from Morocco attempt at a military coup on 17 July 1936 the supported the Falange, he was arrested and taken to the prison Cárcel Modelo de Madrid, where he came under mysterious circumstances on August 23, died (presumably he was assassinated ). The coup and the subsequent Civil War ultimately led to the fact that Francisco Franco was dictator of Spain.

The death of Ruiz de Alda said to have brought Ramón Franco and his own brother Eustaquio Ruiz de Alda to support the coup. Eustaquio Ruiz de Alda fell in 1937 in North Africa.