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- Straight, however, was no penniless amateur mechanic, for he possessed a sizeable fortune and was already an accomplished pilot. On one occasion, he created a stir by fitting in a University examination and a Brooklands meeting all in one day, flying from Cambridge to Weybridge in his private aeroplane.
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Born in New York City, Whitney Straight was the son of Major Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918) and one of the richest heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968), daughter of William Collins Whitney and she inherited $15,000,000 from her father.
Whitney Willard Straight, strikingly good-looking and a millionaire from parental endowments, came to England in 1926, when he was 13, with his mother, who had married an Englishman. They lived at Dartington Hall, South Devon.
Born into money, Whitney Willard Straight had it all, talent, intelligence, courage, and looks that were catnip for the ladies. Straight was never quite at ease with the silver spoon in his mouth. The Press referring to him as a millionaire playboy invariably made him spit the dummy.
While people more readily associate American race drivers as appearing in Europe after World War II, it is worth reflecting on one individual, who through circumstances that were not of his own making, took up the mantle in the 1930s. This was Whitney Willard Straight, born in November 1912 in New York. His parents had wealth beyond the dreams ...
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 Willard Straight, using the leverage that is nature's endowment of young and beautiful wives, won this verbal wrestle in a single throw. Straight thereupon tendered his apologies to Herr Willy Walb, head of Auto Union's racing department, and secured a release from his agreement.
The winner was another Cambridge millionaire student and Riley driver, Whitney Willard Straight. The wealthy young American kept an aeroplane in Cambridge which Dick learned to fly. The two of them used this to hop from race to race during term time.
