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Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, CBE, MC, DFC, FRSA, FRGS (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.
El Miles M.11 Whitney Straight fue un monoplano de cabina biplaza de los años 30, diseñado y producido por el constructor aeronáutico británico Miles Aircraft Ltd. Fue llamado así por Whitney Straight, piloto de carreras del Grand Prix, aviador y hombre de negocios.
Piloto automovilista y de aviación, Whitney Willard Straight nació en Nueva York el 6 de Noviembre de 1912, hijo de Willard Dickerman Straight (1880-1918), que murió, víctima de la “gripe española”, cuando formaba parte del ejército expedicionario norteamericano que había acudido –con retraso– a salvar a Europa en la I Guerra ...
20 de jul. de 2013 · The prodigiously talented young American racing driver, Whitney Straight, abandoned his chosen career at the ripe old age of 23. With no prospect of winning at the highest level of the sport without representing Nazi Germany, he turned to his other great passion - aviation - and founded the Straight Corporation Ltd. in early 1935.…
Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States. Whitney Willard Straight was born in New York to American parents in 1912, the elder of two sons and a daughter.
Whitney Straight was an unusual phenomenon in 1930's British motor racing: he was American, he was a professional and he retired from a very successful career at a very young age.
4 de abr. de 2022 · A gripping tale of speed, heroism, romance, determination, and tragedy: Whitney Straight was born into great wealth in New York, the eldest of three children – his sister would become an Oscar-winning actress and his brother the youngest of the Cambridge spies.
