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"Walker, Diana Barnato [née Diana Barnato] (1918–2008), aviator" published on by Oxford University Press. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
12 de dez. de 2023 · I was honoured to be asked to do Great Lives on BBC Radio 4. I’ve been a massive fan of Diana Barnato Walker ever since I started research for Billie Swift Takes Flight. Her life was uber privileged, violent, chaotic, tragic and super heroic. She really is like a Indiana Jones, James Bond mashed up with a slice of Paddington Bear.
Daughter of Woolf Barnato, as a girl she had an interest in aircraft and age 20 she learned to fly Tiger Moths at the Brooklands Flying Club, making her first solo flight after only six hours of instruction.
The daughter of millionaire racing driver, Woolf Barnato, and granddaughter of Barney Barnato who cofounded the De Beers mining company, by 1936 Diana had had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying, soloing at Brooklands after only six hours' training. She has followed her own instincts ever since.
12 de mai. de 2008 · LONDON — Diana Barnato Walker, an heiress to a South African diamond mining fortune who took up flying in the 1930s and became a celebrated aviator as one of a group of women who delivered new ...
13 de nov. de 2013 · Spreading My Wings, by Diana Barnato Walker, foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Shawcross, Grub Street, 2003. Both www.abebooks.com and www.amazon.com list it. On publication of Spreading My Wings, Diana won a £5 wager with a World War II fighter ace who said she’d never be able to write about her life. We’re the winners as well in this delightful ...
15 de mai. de 2008 · Diana Barnato Walker Pilot who has died aged 90. Diana Barnato Walker was the debutante who went on to become a daredevil wartime pilot and the first woman to break the sound barrier.
