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Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 - 28 April 2008) was an English aviator and horse rider, the first British woman to break the sound barrier. Her father was the famous car racing driver Woolf Barnato who was Chairman of Bentley Motors and also a leading member of their racing team. Diana was a 1936 debutante at the age of 18, meeting King Edward VIII at Buckingham Palace. From an... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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delivered :
Wellingtons, Mosquitos and Mitchells.

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Diana Barnato Walker After yet further training, Diana became eligible to deliver twin-engined aircraft and delivered Whitleys, Blenheims, Mosquitos, Mitchells and Wellingtons, normally flying solo when doing so.

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Diana Barnato Walker After yet further training, Diana became eligible to deliver twin-engined aircraft and delivered Whitleys, Blenheims, Mosquitos, Mitchells and Wellingtons, normally flying solo when doing so.

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Diana Barnato Walker After yet further training, Diana became eligible to deliver twin-engined aircraft and delivered Whitleys, Blenheims, Mosquitos, Mitchells and Wellingtons, normally flying solo when doing so.

gave :
flights and cadets.

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Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets Former Air Transport Auxiliary Pilot, Diana Barnato Walker became a pilot for the Women's Junior Air Corps (WJAC) shortly after the war, giving cadets training and air-experience flights to air-minded teenage girls to encourage them to enter the aviation industry.

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Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets Former Air Transport Auxiliary Pilot, Diana Barnato Walker became a pilot for the Women's Junior Air Corps (WJAC) shortly after the war, giving cadets training and air-experience flights to air-minded teenage girls to encourage them to enter the aviation industry.

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Auxiliary.

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Air Transport Auxiliary Diana Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire whilst serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary

Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets Diana Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire whilst serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary

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    Diana Barnato Walker

    Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 - 28 April 2008) was an English aviator and horse rider, the first British woman to break the sound barrier.
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    Walker Spitfire

    Air Transport Auxiliary

    Diana Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire whilst serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary
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    Walker Spitfire

    Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets

    Diana Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire whilst serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary
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    Whitney Straight

    Obituary of Diana Barnato Walker - by Philip Jarrett - The Independent, 9 May 2008
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    Woolf Barnato

    Diana Barnato Walker - Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier (2003) ISBN 1-904010-31-8
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    Walker (surname)

    Diana Barnato Walker (1918-2008), English pilot
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    Diana Barnato Walker
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    Last Word

    9th May 2008 Diana Barnato Walker]], Mildred Loving, Elaine Dundy, Mary Berry, Germaine Tillion.
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    Deaths in April 2008

    Diana Barnato Walker, 90, British aviator, first British woman to break the sound barrier.
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    Jim Mollison

    A notable incident occurred when Mollison flew as a co-pilot with Diana Barnato Walker.
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