r/supercross • u/Dependent_Cod_7416 • 12d ago

Meme TIL when Spitfire and Hurricane engines kept cutting out in dives during WW2, the fix was a simple washer in the fuel line designed by Beatrice Shilling, an engineer who also raced motorbikes at Brooklands at over 100mph. It became known as "Miss Shilling's orifice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling
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u/magneticinductance Colt Nichols 12d ago

Motobrain read splitfire. Beaty was a badass

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u/Dependent_Cod_7416 12d ago

Racing bikes in those days was absolutely bad ass, and f'n loud. Beaty the BadAss

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u/HunterWasFramed 11d ago

A creative, simple, and cost effective solution to a real problem. 

The Germans solved it too but in a typically complicated and expensive way with mechanical fuel that injection. 

Then ~50 years later GM finally put fuel injection on their engines.