convinced her friend and airplane manufacturer Charles Voisin to teach her to fly, flying some 300 yards on her first flight, a solo flight since the Voisin aircraft had only one seat. One year later, de Laroche received license # 36 from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. She made numerous flying demonstrations around Europe and Egypt, and despite serious injuries she sustained in a crash, she returned to the air and was awarded the Aero-Club of France’ s Femina Cup for a 4-hour, nonstop flight. She also set two altitude records for women in 1919. De Laroche died on July 18, 1919 in a crash that also killed her co-pilot.
Blue Streak missile and investigated the effects wet runways on aircraft braking. As a racer, she was awarded the Gold Star for lapping the Brooklands circuit at an average of 106 mph on her Norton M30 motorcycle. Shilling died on November 18, 1990 at age 81.
The birth of Beatrice“ Tilly” Shilling, a British aeronautical engineer, motorcycle racer, and auto racer. Shilling is best known for her invention of the R. A. E. Restrictor, known to pilots as Miss Shilling’ s Orifice, which helped eliminate the problem of engine flooding in the early Rolls-Royce Merlin engines used on the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. Following the war, Shilling worked on the