{"id":554,"date":"2008-08-22T17:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=554"},"modified":"2008-08-22T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T11:57:18","slug":"sexual-innuendo-down-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/sexual-innuendo-down-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Innuendo Down the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wikisurfing led to this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supermarine_Spitfire\">remarkable piece of information<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early in its development, the Merlin engine&#8217;s lack of direct fuel injection meant that both Spitfires and Hurricanes, unlike the Bf 109E, were unable to simply nose down into a steep dive. This meant a Luftwaffe fighter could simply &#8220;bunt&#8221; into a high-power dive to escape an attack, leaving the Spitfire sputtering behind, as its fuel was forced by <span class=\"mw-redirect\">negative &#8220;g&#8221;<\/span> out of the <span class=\"mw-redirect\">carburettor<\/span>. RAF fighter pilots soon learned to &#8220;half-roll&#8221; their aircraft before diving to pursue their opponents. The use of carburettors was calculated to give a higher specific power output, due to the lower temperature, and hence the greater density, of the fuel\/air mixture fed into the motor, compared to injected systems. In March 1941, a metal diaphragm with a hole in it was fitted across the float chambers. It partly cured the problem of fuel starvation in a dive, and became known as &#8220;Miss Shilling&#8217;s orifice&#8221; as it was invented by a female engineer, Beatrice &#8220;Tilly&#8221; Shilling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminded me of <em>two<\/em> streets in England: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penny_lane\">Penny Lane<\/a> (because of the Shilling connection), and Threadneedle Street, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A753527\">originally called Gropecunte Lane<\/a>. And also of <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/322\/\">xkcd 322<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wikisurfing led to this remarkable piece of information: Early in its development, the Merlin engine&#8217;s lack of direct fuel injection meant that both Spitfires and Hurricanes, unlike the Bf 109E, were unable to simply nose down into a steep dive. This meant a Luftwaffe fighter could simply &#8220;bunt&#8221; into a high-power dive to escape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[239,252,257,397,682,850,916,1077,1443,1593,1643,2003,2091,2146,2252,2457],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-weirder-than-fiction","tag-bank-of-england","tag-battle-of-britain","tag-beatrice-shilling","tag-carburettor","tag-dive","tag-fuel-injection","tag-gropecunte-lane","tag-innuendo","tag-miss-shillings-orifice","tag-orifice","tag-pennylane","tag-sexism","tag-spitfire","tag-supermarine-spitfire","tag-threadneedle-street","tag-xkcd-322"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-8W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}