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Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) was a British aeronautical engineer and motor racer. During World War II, she invented "Miss Shilling's orifice", a fix for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters, which prevented engine flooding in a dive.Shilling raced motorcycles in the 1930s, and after the war raced automobiles.

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  • Beatrice (Tilly) Shilling OBE PhD MSc CEng (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) was a British aeronautical engineer and motor racer. During World War II, she invented "Miss Shilling's orifice", a fix for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters, which prevented engine flooding in a dive.Shilling raced motorcycles in the 1930s, and after the war raced automobiles.
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  • British aeronautical engineer
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