You recently became part of the promotion team of the flag carrier of the country, and you're tasked to shoot a new travel commercial. On the first night, you find yourself in a different world set 80 years from the past---a time where the world was...
A/N: Due to the limit of pictures allowed per chapter, I've made this secondary chapter featuring a collection of credited photos featuring Lt. César Basa, the 6th Pursuit Squadron, PAAC, old airfields, the iconic Boeing P-26A Peashooter, and old Manila maps. If one would notice, there were a few existing portraits of Basa as I've tried to post the photographs in a chronological order, incorporating those of the 6thPursuit Squadron and PAAC. The last few photos were that of the airfields, Boeing P-26A Peashooter, and Maps of Manila.
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1. Ateneo de Manila University's Blue and Whites Basketball Team (Blue Eagles) 1937-1938 I was unsure and unable to identify who among them was or could be Basa but as mentioned from the previous chapter, he was a celebrated basketball player of the team to be part of Ateneo's NCAA basketball win of 1937. Source: Olivares, Rick. "The Last of the Blue and Whites: A Story of the 1937-38 Ateneo Basketball Team ." Bleachers Brew, 16 Aug. 2008, https://bleachersbrew.blogspot.com/2008/08/last-of-blue-whites.html.
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2. César Fernando Ma. T. Basa, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology Major in Chemistry, Class 1939 Definitely a graduation portrait of Basa upon graduating BS Industrial Technology Major in Chemistry with honors at Ateneo de Manila University Class 1939. Others listed his course to be BS Industrial Chemistry; but whatever it was, they've been consistent to mention that he graduated with flying colors. Source: Villarroel, Hector K., and Carlos Quirino. Eminent Filipinos. Philippine Textbook Publishers, 1965. From the collection of the Filipinas Heritage Library under Ayala Foundation, Inc.
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3. Lt. César Basa in uniform Found this a little strange of him as it was a little not like him based on the earlier portraits I've seen of him. Sent it to a close friend and told him, "I think this is like poster boy upon entering flight training. I mean, come on, he looked so young here and despite the presence of the epaulettes, there's the absence of wings (badge) and collar pins." He laughed and said that, "Nakakatanda ba ang flying?" Sent him again my ID picture from my airmen's license (which wasn't updated ever since I've started flight training last 2018), and he commented, "Ah, right. Baby face lahat ng nagsisimula ng flight training. Nakakatanda pala talaga ang mag-piloto." I think flying is indeed stressful; and despite my 160+ flying hours, I'll say that no flight is the same for one to be complacent of the work. In short, it is indeed draining and exhausting no matter how fun and enjoyable it is. Source: Neri, Francis. "The Greats of the Philippine Fighter Force: Cesar T. Basa." Pinoy Aviators, https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.623008064400103&type=3.
