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