Three decades at the Walter Works
Jaroslav Prepura was born on 15 July 1948 in Prague. After graduating from the Secondary School of Mechanical Engineering in Smíchov (1967), he found employment in the R&D department of Motorlet; he worked in various positions in Motorlet until 1997, when he switched to the newly established Prague branch of Herding, a Bavarian company, and five years later he got a job at Czech Flight Services. In 2011 he was acquired by Ing. Vyčítal and put in charge of a group that digitised old drawings from Motorlet. He continues to work at GE Aviation Czech in the position of a consultant.