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[katsmeat]

As today is Ada Lovelace day....

Can I draw your attention to Beatrice Shilling? Most books on the Spitfire will give her a paragraph; Gunston's, well-regarded book on aircraft engines gives her a bit more, as so it damn-well should.

Her fascinating life deserves a better memorial than some pub-name in Farnborough.

Crossposted from Dreamwidth.

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[huskyteer]

Ooh! I had heard of her orifice but not her career as a racing motorcyclist.

[katsmeat]

Heh... I did some Googling of the name and found this wonderful account from somebody who met her and her husband... I'm guessing sometime in the 80's.

http://www.elva.com/history/aug06-jottings02.html