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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on October 10, 2020, 11:15:08 AM
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https://www.damninteresting.com/how-miss-shillings-orifice-helped-win-the-war/
I never knew about this.
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I never knew about this.
Now that you do know, what are you prepared to do about it?
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That sounds like something that should be an episode of The History Guy on YouTube.
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That sounds like something that should be an episode of The History Guy on YouTube.
Agreed. She had quite the impressive career.
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I'd heard about the restrictor plate, but didn't realize it had been designed by a female engineer.
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I've read about all this before; not sure why (including the "orifice" name) but had forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder :)
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Her gender didn't/doesn't matter, what she did does - and it was impressive.
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Her gender didn't/doesn't matter, what she did does - and it was impressive.
Sure it does. Wouldn't be that interesting today, but considering the gender roles of 1940s Britain, it's pretty unusual for a woman to be doing what she did.
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It just makes her more impressive.
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It just makes her more impressive.
Or, it shows that limiting a person's career and/or education opportunities based solely on gender (or skin color or religion or class or...) instead of demonstrable ability and aptitude is as monumentally *expletive deleted*ing stupid today as it was historically.
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Well, yeah. It was stupid then, it's stupid now. Matter of fact, IMO, it's stupid anytime.
Of course, the opposite is true too. Promoting someone based solely on gender (or skin color or religion or class or...) is monumentally *expletive deleted*ing stupid
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It just makes her more impressive.
So now you're saying her gender does matter?
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Do enough reading on them there flying machines and you're bound to have come across that.
That litle aircraftt fact hung around in semifamy because of the "orifice" connotations. Tee-hee-giggle-giggle-snicker-snicker.
All kinds of weird things emerge from aircraft history.
Like the Spitfire fighter jet propulsion exhaust stacks whichi increased its speed about 6 mph over the regular Rolls-Royce exhaust stacks. Hey, you blow something thisaway and you go thataway.
And the fact that Charles Lindbergh actually flew (illegally) in combat in the Pacific war, supposedly downing at least one Jap airplane. (His real contribution was in demonstrating how close RPM control could substantially increase the range of fighter aircraft, specifically the P-38. IIRC, this range enhancement allowed us to assassinate Yamamoto. )
And that Claire Chennault was actually a guy. :)
There are times I think somebody ought to market an aeronautical trivia pursuit game.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/The_Caproni_Ca.60_on_Lake_Maggiore%2C_1921.png)
My source says this thing never flew, but others claim it did. Maybe it was like Howard Hughes' Birch Goose, which some claim was only aloft on ground effect lift.
=D
Terry, 230RN
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The article never mentions why the German aircraft didn't have this problem...
They were fuel injected, something the British manufacturers didn't adopt until quite a bit later in the war with other engines.
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OK, Fess up. How many here are glad they read the link before they jumped the gun and posted with their first thought? :old:
Woody