GJM

Chartered Insurance Risk Manager, Bradford City fan, Casual and proud Yorkshire Man! #everywherewego All opinions and views are all mine!

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@jonnewsholme It’s like when I went for my signed picture in club shop with waddle and he had already left for Sheffield Wednesday ..

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@gibbo1012 can I order a large kojak in blue please

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@humblegentsnl 3-2 Morocco

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@JamieRaynor @BBCSounds @BBCWYS Still friends 😳😳😜😜🤣🤣

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@JamieRaynor @BBCWYS On the piece on the intertoto cup didn’t we get in on the basis of best disciplinary record ? I’m sure I remember that had something to do with it at the time?

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@Barraman4evr @WHW_HighlandIC Not sure he told me the full story they killed a German escaping and dropped him down a well from memory . He also went on raids in Yugoslavia and was left behind and rescued by farmers and returned via Tito who he met

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@Barraman4evr @WHW_HighlandIC I met one of these blokes he lived in Bingley West Yorkshire the rest were grenaded in a hut . They held the canal against the advancing Germans at dunkirk until they ran out of rounds and were captured.

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@Greeny1911 It’s when it rains it literally it teams stagnant smelling water all over you . Not pleasant to be fair when dry it’s fine

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@LowerLeagueLook @bowers_bcafc12 What they don’t mention often is the fans that went home that day still burnt but no one realised . Grandads head burnt off and didn’t go to hospital until day after as in total shock . He came out after the policeman on the video, people from Silsden who stood next to him didnt

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@Thecityvent No steaming and watching in benidorm

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@BCAFCBH @footybloketakes Don’t think either will be fit , shame but we have replacements in lapslie and powell,

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@DaioGoddard @EFLStats That’s just about half the league and doesn’t even include looking at Tuesday night games

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@DaioGoddard @EFLStats What like Plymouth Exeter, Wimbledon stevenage, Lincoln peterbrough Luton wycombe reading Northampton Cardiff all just round the corner..

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@thebantams1903 It makes no odds just win both and we can enjoy a trip to Wembley!

[Daniel Gardecki @Danstarr69BCAFC]

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@JamieRaynor There next week for the Saturday game .. with loads of Leeds fans

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@BCAFCBH Lapslie the forgotten man made that.. it’s like having a new player just at the right time #bcafc

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@nathanevans94 @TheWidthofaPost @officialbantams @bantamsbanter @Thecityvent @JamieRaynor @ParkerTandA Thank god for Nathan. ‘Unbelievable tekkers!’ Upper cut to the Bolton trivia

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Every time a German Messerschmitt pilot wanted to escape a Spitfire on his tail, he did the same thing.
He pushed the nose down.
In a dive, the German engine kept running — it used fuel injection. The British Spitfire's engine cut out. For one and a half seconds the Merlin went dead, the aircraft shuddered, and by the time it caught again the German was gone. Worse: if a German was behind a British pilot and the British pilot dove to escape, the German could follow and keep shooting while the British engine was silent.
Pilots were dying because of a carburetor.
The engineers at Farnborough knew about the problem. They were working on a long-term solution — a redesigned carburetor that would take years to perfect and manufacture.
A woman named Beatrice Shilling fixed it with a washer.

She was born in Hampshire in 1909 and was the kind of child who spent her pocket money on Meccano sets and tools. At fourteen she bought her first motorbike. Her mother, with the inspired instinct of someone who understood what her daughter actually was, found the Women's Engineering Society and arranged an apprenticeship at an electrical firm.
She went to Manchester University — one of the first two women ever to study engineering there — graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, stayed another year for a master's in mechanical engineering, and in 1936 joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a scientific officer.
By the late 1930s she was one of the best carburetor engineers in Britain. She was also one of only three women to hold the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star — awarded for lapping the Brooklands racing circuit at over 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle.
She had reportedly told her future husband, an engineer named George Naylor, that she wouldn't marry him until he earned his own Brooklands Gold Star first.
He earned it. They married in 1938.

The problem with the Merlin was specific and lethal. The SU carburetor used a float chamber to regulate fuel flow. Under negative g-forces — the forces experienced in a sudden dive — the fuel flooded to the top of the float chamber and starved the engine for 1.5 seconds. Just enough time for a German pilot to turn the tables entirely.
The RAF had known about this since the Battle of France. The formal solution — a redesigned pressure carburetor — was in development but wouldn't be ready for years.
Shilling was thirty-one years old, working in carburetor research, and she designed a fix in weeks.
A brass thimble with a precisely calibrated hole in the center — later simplified to a flat washer — fitted inline in the fuel line just before the carburetor. It restricted maximum fuel flow to just enough to prevent flooding without cutting off power. The key breakthrough: it could be fitted without taking the aircraft out of service. No downtime. No factory return.
The old guard at the RAE looked at it and called it a plumbing fix. They called her a plumber. The first batch of 5,000 units was made by a Birmingham firm that normally manufactured plumbing fixtures, which they found embarrassing.
The RAF pilots who flew Spitfires with Messerschmitts on their tails called it something else.
They called it Miss Shilling's Orifice. With deep affection.

By March 1941 she had organized a small team and was personally touring RAF fighter stations across England — traveling between bases on her old racing motorcycle — fitting the device to every Merlin engine they could reach. Squadron leaders all over the country were demanding installations. The word spread faster than the official channels could keep up with.
The Germans noticed. They couldn't explain why British fighter pilots had suddenly started following them into dives. They were baffled by the new aggression. They didn't know about the washer.

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