Diana Barnato Walker
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Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS was a pioneering British aviator. In World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 26
Barnato Walker at the controls of an Airspeed Oxford
Barnato Walker climbing into the cockpit of a Spitfire while serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary.
Woolf Barnato
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Joel Woolf Barnato was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
Diana Barnato Walker
…at Mach 1.6, which also represented a world air speed record for women. Diana Barnato was born on 15 January 1918 in London, the younger daughter of Woolf Joel Barnato (1895–1948), a financier and racing driver, and Dorothy Maitland, née Falk (1892/3–1961). In 1936, at the age of 18, she was a debutante and was presented…
Woolf Barnato at the 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans
1929 "Blower" Bentley