BJ Habibie – Leading a Country in Transition
By Jeffrey Hardy Quah
January 2013 FEATURE
Maybe BJ Habibie should have stayed an engineer in Germany. From all accounts he was brilliant as one, having developed constructs now known as the Habibie Theorem, the Habibie Factor and the Habibie Method. He certainly seems more alive when he talks about airplanes, his favourite story being the N-250, a revolutionary turboprop of his design (“Until today, the only fly-by-wire turboprop ever made by mankind!”).Instead, he went home, and is now most famous – or infamous – for being...
Jeffrey Hardy Quah
is a freelance writer and editor.
