You got the surname right WF, but little else I'm afraid.
Miss Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling, 1909-1990 was one of the first Lady Farnborough Boffins.
Her negative-g fix (a small metal disk with a hole in the middle) was nicknamed "Miss Shilling's Orifice" and was fitted to all Merlin equipped aircraft in fighter command in 1941 and remained there until RR came up with a better Carburettor.
Apparently the lady was also a very capable technician, raced motorcycles, when she married (an aerodynamicist named George Naylor) was presented with a set of stocks and dies by her colleagues, and was said to have turned her own wedding ring on a lathe from stainless steel.
Just before her retirement she was actively researching aquaplaning in the wake of the Munich / Manchester United accident.
Sorry I never met her, must have been a heck of a gal.
G
Last edited by Genghis the Engineer; 10th February 2004 at 15:45.