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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... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1912
Date of Death:
1979
Nationality:
United States, United Kingdom
Profession:
Racecar driver

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wife.

Whitney Straight left wife

Diana Barnato Walker She vowed never to marry again, and became the lover of married English-based American pilot Whitney Straight, who like her father had been a pre-war champion racing driver - the couple had a son Barney Barnato in 1947, and having never asked Straight to leave his wife, her only comment was: "I was perfectly content.

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Fulham.

Whitney Straight die in Fulham

Whitney Straight Whitney Straight died in Fulham in 1979 at the age of sixty-six.

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Rolls-Royce.

Whitney Straight joined Rolls-Royce

Whitney Straight Later Whitney Straight joined Rolls-Royce as deputy Chairman, and it was while visiting Peking, China in 1958 that Straight was horrified to discover that the Russian Mig 15 planes had counterfeit versions of the Rolls-Royce Derwent and Nene engines.

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    Whitney Straight

    Born in New York, Whitney Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight and heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. He was 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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    Miles Whitney Straight

    The Miles M.11 Whitney Straight was a two-seater light aircraft with a dual-control, 'side-by-side' cockpit configuration developed in 1936 as a collaboration between Miles Aircraft and American-born Whitney Straight, best known as a Grand Prix motor racing driver and later an Royal Air Force pilot and director of BOAC.
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    Michael Whitney Straight

    Michael Whitney Straight died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Chicago, Illinois, aged 87.
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    Beatrice Straight

    Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American Academy Award-winning theatre, film, and television actress.
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    Dorothy Payne Whitney

    Whitney Willard Straight (1912–1979) ... Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004)
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    List of aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal New Zealand Navy

    Whitney Straight 3 Miles Whitney Straight (survivor)
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    Miles Monarch

    The last civil type produced by Phillips and Powis before the war, the Monarch was a development of their earlier Whitney Straight.
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    Willard Straight

    Whitney Willard Straight (1912-1979) Beatrice Whitney Straight (1914-2001)
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    Aerial topdressing

    The survey was delayed when the Ministry's Miles Whitney Straight, ZK-AFH, was grounded by bad weather.
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    1934 Grand Prix season

    | Donington Park Trophy | Donington Park | October 6 | Whitney Straight | Maserati | Report |

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