Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States. Born in New York, Whitney Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight and heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. He was almost six years old when his father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the United States Army during World War I.
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- Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States. Born in New York, Whitney Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight and heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. He was almost six years old when his father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the United States Army during World War I. Following his mother's remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925, the family moved to England. They lived at Dartington Hall where he attended the progressive school founded by his parents. His education was completed at Trinity College, Cambridge. On July 17, 1935 he married Lady Daphne Margarita Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea, and they had two daughters. Whitney Straight was the father of Barney Barnato Walker (born 1947), whose mother was noted aviatrix Diana Barnato Walker, MBE, the first British woman to break the sound barrier (Source - "Spreading My Wings" by Diana Barnato-Walker).
- Whitney Straight var en britisk racerkjører, flyver, offiser og forretningsmann. For sin innsats under kampene i Norge i 1940, og for senere ledelse av utdanningen av norske flygere i Storbritannia, ble han tildelt det norske Krigskorset. Whitney Straight ble født i New York, sønn av Willard Dickerman Straight og Dorothy Payne Whitney. Hans far tjenestegjorde med United States Army i Frankrike under første verdenskrig og døde der av spanskesyken. Hans mor giftet seg igjen i 1925, med en britisk agronom og familien flyttet til Storbritannia, Straight studerte så ved Trinity College i Cambridge.
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- Chairman Royal Aero Club, Managing Director and CEO British Overseas Airways Corporation, Deputy Chairman Rolls-Royce
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- Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States. Born in New York, Whitney Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight and heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. He was almost six years old when his father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the United States Army during World War I.
- Whitney Straight var en britisk racerkjører, flyver, offiser og forretningsmann. For sin innsats under kampene i Norge i 1940, og for senere ledelse av utdanningen av norske flygere i Storbritannia, ble han tildelt det norske Krigskorset. Whitney Straight ble født i New York, sønn av Willard Dickerman Straight og Dorothy Payne Whitney. Hans far tjenestegjorde med United States Army i Frankrike under første verdenskrig og døde der av spanskesyken.
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