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longship

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Sat Mar 8, 2014, 05:50 PM Mar 2014

The Tilly Shilling Oriface. Xpost from GD. [View all]

Happy birthday, Tilly Shilling!

Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling was an aeronautical engineer who solved one of the more insidious flaws in British fighter plane design during the critical Battle of Britain. Her solution was simple, yet elegant. It saved lives.

It has been called Miss Shilling's Oriface and it's one of those regretably unsung advances which somehow never come to light except on international women's celebrations.

By the way, Tilly was also a motorcycle racer.

And word has it that she refused to marry a suitor until he beat her in a motorcycle race. That was her criteria, not his. One would surmise that the outcome was in question until it was finished.

There's a even a pub in Farnborough named after her.
The Tilly Shilling

So how cool is that?

I raise a glass to Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling.


And don't get me started about another WWII heroine engineer, Hedy Lamarr and her paper on spread spectrum. Yup, this Hedy Lamarr:


Please, not Hedley:


Hope you like.

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