In 1940, British pilots were dying without ever being hit by the enemy.
The cause was purely technical.
They were flying the Spitfire—already an exceptional aircraft in terms of aerodynamics and maneuverability—but one critical flaw remained: engine fuel supply under strong negative acceleration.
During a steep dive to escape a Messerschmitt, negative G-forces caused fuel to surge into the carburetor.
The mixture instantly became too rich.
The engine lost combustion, spluttered, then cut out completely.
A few seconds were enough to turn an agile fighter into a stationary target.
German aircraft, equipped with direct fuel injection, retained full power in dives and pull-outs.
The tactical advantage was real, measurable, and deadly.
RAF engineers were well aware of the problem.
But the “ideal” solution required a complete redesign of the Merlin engine—unrealistic in the midst of the Battle of Britain.
That is where Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling came in, an aeronautical engineer and recognized specialist in high-performance mechanics.
Accustomed to pushing engines to their limits in motorcycle racing, she approached systems not as abstract theory, but under real extreme conditions.
Rather than redesigning the engine, she carefully analyzed the fluid dynamics of the fuel delivery system.
Her diagnosis was simple and rigorous: the issue was not combustion, but an instantaneous excess of fuel flow.
She calculated a critical threshold.
The engine had to receive enough fuel to maintain maximum power, but never enough to flood the carburetor under negative G.
Her solution was brutally effective.
A simple brass flow restrictor, drilled with millimetric precision, installed upstream of the carburetor.
A passive component, with no moving parts, no failure risk, dimensioned exactly to the Merlin’s requirements.
She personally validated the device, then traveled from airbase to airbase to have it installed.
No committees, no delays—tests, measurements, results.
Once in place, the engine remained fueled during dives.
Spitfires could maintain power, follow the enemy through vertical maneuvers, and finally exploit their full aerodynamic potential.
Officially, the device became known as the “R.A.E. restrictor.”
On the airfields, pilots simply called it “Miss Shilling’s orifice.”
It was not an elegant solution in the academic sense.
It was a performant, robust, immediately operational solution.
Exactly what war demanded.
Without flying an aircraft or firing a single shot, Beatrice Shilling turned a critical disadvantage into a measurable tactical gain.
A striking example of what engineering can achieve when guided by technical mastery, sound calculation, and the courage to act quickly.
Polish Catholic Priest Father Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for harbouring Jews.
He volunteered to take the place of a condemned prisoner… giving his life for the sake of a younger Man with a family. This man survived the War and many years later was present when the Catholic Church made Kolbe a Saint.
I am no Catholic yet believe this man’s heroic sacrifice is worthy of remembrance.
We all know the shameful deal the Catholic church made with the Nazi Regime… yet Kolbe is a demonstration that it is wrong to judge *all Catholics* living through that time by the actions of their Church hierarchy.
Many German’s also gave their lives fighting the Nazis and refusing to surrender their values… Dietrich Bonhoeffer being another… and Hans and Sophie Scholl… proving there were Brave and Nobel Germans prepared to pay the ultimate price rather than bend the knee to The Satanic Adolf Hitler.
“Imagine a world where everyone has access to the best surgeons, literally everyone. And Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman. And will be able to do medical procedures, very sophisticated medical… pic.twitter.com/rVjCVmlu3v
“Imagine a world where everyone has access to the best surgeons, literally everyone. And Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman. And will be able to do medical procedures, very sophisticated medical procedures, any medial procedures, perhaps things that really humans can’t even do bc it’s too difficult. And that will be available to anyone. People often talk about eliminating poverty and providing great medical care, but they don’t actually have a solution. And money doesn’t solve it bc there’s only so many, very limited number of great doctors and surgeons. They don’t grow on trees. But now they’ll get built in factories.”
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My commentary
I Remember not too long ago Elon declared that The greatest existential threat to humanity was AI?
Then proceeds to build AI.
Now he speaks of a Socialist Utopia.
IMO that is the least likely outcome.
His original dark prediction is far more plausible.
It seems inevitable that we are to be the architects of our own destruction.
The inescapable Human condition.
We cannot save ourselves.
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.
More….
Elon Musk: The communist utopia will be achieved via capitalism.
“The irony is that the capitalist implementation of AI and robotics enabling prosperity for all, an abundance of goods and services is actually what results in the communist utopia.
The problem with communism is it’s universal low income. It’s not that everyone gets elevated, it’s that everyone gets oppressed except for a very small minority of politicians who live lives of luxury. That’s what’s happened every time it’s been done.
If the actual communist utopia is achieved, where everyone gets anything they want, it will be achieved via capitalism. Fate is an irony maximizer.”
The Joe Rogan Experience, October 31, 2025
Elon Musk: The communist utopia will be achieved via capitalism.
“The irony is that the capitalist implementation of AI and robotics enabling prosperity for all, an abundance of goods and services is actually what results in the communist utopia.
"We are resilient, resourceful people who can represent ourselves. We don't need any special treatment." — Donna Katae, Otago Peninsula Board Candidate
Are Māori Wards strengthening representation — or undermining it?
It is a war of Truth vs lies… and the Left are losing… that is why they are resorting to violence.
RIP Charlie… Hero of Freedom… Martyr for Christ.
Let us redouble our resolve to drive the Satanic doctrines of the Left back to hell where they belong.
No more of their vile hateful dangerous ideology.
We need to stand resolute… no more retreat.
Stand fast in the Liberty of Christ.
Condemn them… Renounce them…. Deny their power over us.
Let us take care not to emulate their Satanic means.
Resist Peacefully, Forthrightly.
We Reclaim our Freedom and Rights, and Christian Culture.
Fools despise what Christianity has done for Western Civilisation.
Without Christ… Western Civilisation will collapse in darkness and tyranny.
This is what we are witnessing… Demonic.
The Woke Left are unhinged.
The same faction who are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk for speaking truth are the same people who celebrate Hamas murders of October 7.
One X commentator disgusted with the Woke Radical left celebrating Charlie’s murder, asked If X should ban all such posts?
That’s anti-free speech… Charlie would say no! Definitely not! That’s what he was fighting against. Violence begins where speech finishes. Leave the Censorship for the Communists and fascists.
Allowing the rabid Left to post their disgusting Glee exposes who they really are and is actually convincing thousands to abandon the Woke Left.
Charlies assassination is reverberating around the world, and has shocked many Left Leaning people out of their stupor.
They have awoken to fact that it is *their party* *their side* *Their people* who are the evil hateful psychotics.
Charlie’s death is the impetus for a mass exodus from Wokedom.
I have attached a stack of ‘X’ shorts of Blacks, and even Gays, who are utterly disgusted by Charlies Murder, and the Murder of 23 year old White Girl Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina in the past week.
Their testimonies are an important counter-point to the growing amount of Far right extremism that flourishes when Black and migrant Crimes are spammed across the Net.
These testimonies (below and more in the comments) show there are plenty of Black people who are not Savage racists who hate whites. They have been smart enough not to swallow the Anti-white Racist garbage the Far Left have been spouting, and they too are appalled by the barbarism and extremism of the Woke Left.
Most of all People are Rethinking about the virtues of the Christian Faith.
When I’m just starting to embrace and love our country, a good man is executed LIVE in front of thousands of college students and the DEMONcrats are celebrating! Prayers up for Charlie Kirk’s family. The Left are PURE EVIL! Please excuse my language. pic.twitter.com/6mBfIe521e
To you Democrats and leftists who rejoice in Charlie Kirk’s death, thank you. Thank You for giving us the real purpose of “FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT” really means!! If you think there’s one Charlie Kirk, you’re wrong. They are more coming your way!!!! pic.twitter.com/NwJ0lGQWoh
— Brock “From Blob to Beast” Easley (@TheBrockEasley) September 10, 2025
I’ve seen a lot in my 2 years of being a creator but what I just saw with Charlie Kirk has changed me forever. We have to pray for a miracle and work together. Let all of our differences go in this moment. pic.twitter.com/WknViLBbLm
Calling people Nazis and fascist for over 10 years WILL radicalize the weak of mind. They always perpetuate violence on those they disagree with. PRAY FOR @charliekirk11pic.twitter.com/49ALyk3rPk
Now isn’t it interesting that *if these claims are true* Big Pharma is so strongly linked to yet more massive social evils!
Those documented side effects are telling too… esp in Western societies in which murders in general and suicides have been on the consistent climb over the same period.
What must be taken into consideration is that most/all of these people have been prescribed these drugs due to what Doctors must have seen as mental stress, social alienation, etc… so that factor must also be acknowledged.
Big Pharma would have a vested interest to deflect public attention to ‘other plausible causes’… such as it has been suggested that Heavy Metal and Rap music are somehow causal factors… anything and everything except their drugs!
I had a friend who was as tuff as nails commit suicide.
I found out later she had been proscribed Prozac.
It has always caused me to wonder if she suffered some sort of Heavy side effect reaction.
When friends of mine are going through stress… I do my best to tell them to avoid going on anti-depressants.
Most of the time their ‘depression’ is understandable given their circumstances… ie is a normal and healthy response to whatever trauma they have experienced… not at all a symptom of an unhealthy mind.
Therefore I say it is wrong to medicate such people. Only when the depression has no reasonable basis should it be considered a mental imbalance that might require medical intervention… yet even then as a last resort.
Counselling and other means like social interaction should be tried first in my unqualified opinion.
I gain my insights from experience… not training.
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.
The following song is dedicated to my old lost friend Debz Bailey.
We used to listen to Pearl Jam together… Great times.
RIP.
Maxwell Joseph Davies.
19 Nov 1948 to 6 August 2024.
After a period of illness, on Friday 9 August 2024 family and friends laid Maxwell Joseph Davies to rest at Pyes Pa Cemetery.
Plot 80.
I had the honour of being asked by Max’s family to direct Max’s funeral service, and to deliver a short gospel message before Max’s body was carried out to his final resting place.
To some attendees my short Christian message was probably seen as a superfluous 5-10 minutes to be endured rather than as anything important, yet for Reawyn, *And Max* his funeral was an opportunity not to be missed… to declare the truth about Jesus Christ and the Bible.
Far from being silly superstitions… Max’s and fam’s faith is founded upon solid ground, and the Gospel message contains their highest values as they know how essential it is for every human being to come to a saving knowledge of why Jesus Christ voluntarily submitted to death on the Cross.
They were especially desirous for their close family and friends to know the love of God so that they might be saved from God’s Judgement for their sins… should the light of truth dawn in their hearts.
On this score… the Davies have proven their love, and faithfully fulfilled their Christian moral duty.
Make no mistake… Heaven and Hell are for real!
Whatever the future holds for each person who attended Max’s funeral, let it never be said the Davies failed to warn their loved ones about the impending Judgement of the Almighty and the simple way God has provided for us all to be forgiven and made holy, so that we can spend eternity together in his presence.
Let he that hath an ear to hear… let them hear.
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
Paul The Apostle to the Gentiles. (Corinthians 1vs 18-21)
God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us
Romans 5vs8
It was an honour to be asked to deliver these vital truths to the people Max held so dearly.
I did my best with the short time I had to prepare, and tried to balance the importance of what needed to be said, without too much imposition upon the occasion.
My intention being to write a tribute of more substance to Max’s faith to be put online as a memorial… hence this which is before you now.
I was asked by Reawyn and Fam to perform these rites… to bless her home, etc as more than 3 decades ago, I had the pleasure of Leading a bible study at Max and Reawyn’s home in Payne st Judea.
What a fruitful little fellowship that was!
The Word of God found fertile soil there and Max and Reawyn’s faith grew strong… and enduring… transforming them into Bible believing… Grace preaching… Dispensational… Christians.
From that time onwards Max was no longer simply ‘a family man’ and a Builder…. he became ‘A soldier for Christ’… Max’s life became imbued with Divine strength and purpose.
God gave Max and family the fortitude to endure hardship, and to take pleasure in the simple things of life… esp family.
Max truly was a powerful and Godly Christian Warrior!
He was a beacon of light… Mighty with the Sword of the Spirit (The word of God).
Max was anything but a stereotypical Christian! He always was and remained to the end of his life… A Bougan… A Pakeha Maori, He loved a beer and a good yarn.
Unlike so many phony Pharisaic type churchmen… full of ‘Spiritual pride’… who preach Moral Legalism.. and posture with fake self-righteousness… mishandling the scripture and teaching false doctrines of works, and who don’t even believe the bibles they hold in their hands… Max was the antithesis of all those things! He was a preacher of *genuine Christian truths*… of Humility, of grace, and of faith in the trustworthiness of the King James Bible… in spite of our own shortcomings.
He knew and preached the true Gospel of God’s grace given to us via God’s Apostle Paul. Its a tragic reality that a majority of Christians in the world today don’t even understand these basic essentials.
Max did.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed… Rightly dividing the word of truth…”
2 Timothy 2vs 15.
There may be thousands of Christians and churches in New Zealand, yet sadly most of them wallow in False doctrine… and don’t properly understand the Gospel.
Very few indeed truly understand the scriptures to the degree that Max did.
He really was a beacon of light as he appealed to everyone he met to stop walking in darkness and embrace the Bible!
Max would extoll you to trust the King James Authorised version of the Bible… As God’s inspired and preserved revelation to us… The final authority in all matters of Faith and conduct.
Max lived a quiet life and received little credit for his labours for Humanity and God. No honours (except from his immediate circle) No fame.
Despite living in virtual obscurity It is my testimony to declare that when Maxwell Joseph Davies passed away Tauranga and New Zealand lost one of our Greatest Christians.
He lived a good life, and it is in recognition of His stature as a real Bible believing Christian that I write this tribute.
Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant.
The same week Max passed away Lead vocalist of the 70s Rock Band Led Zeppelin Robert Plant turned 76… making him virtually the same age as Max… His age difference being 3mths.
You may be wondering why I mention Robert Plant in my tribute to Max Davies? Well, It has to do with the question…. What is a Good life? What is real Success?
Most people reading this know Robert Plant is ‘Rock Royalty’… having achieved ‘Legendary’ status… Living a life of fame and fortune… yet we also know the sands of time sooner or later run out for us all.
Robert Plant will eventually go to his grave with millions of adoring Fans paying him tribute… and by many people’s estimation Robert Plant has Lived Life to it’s fullest. Literally millions of Fans would loved to have walked in his shoes … Yet will any of that Fame and Glory matter when Robert Plant goes to meet his Maker?
In the final tally… when we each give account for ourselves before God Almighty do you really think all the fame and fortune will be deemed to have eternal glory?
No.
“For What profit a man though he should gain the whole world yet lose his own soul?”
Mark 8vs 36.
You see it is when we stand before God Almighty and our lives and deeds are (metaphorically speaking) weighed in his scale… that’s when the true value of things will be known. Do you expect God to use the same judgement as this lost world measures success?
To believe that is to be foolish indeed!
“…Behold, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding” Job 28vs28
If then we use God’s yardstick to measure what a Good and successful life is I contend that despite Max’s humble existence… in the final tally… God will find his works and his faith are of far greater eternal value than all Robert Plant’s so-called ‘Fabulous life of Earthy success’.
We Christians do not serve the Lord in expectation of wealth or Fame, but out of our love and gratitude to the Lord for what he has done for us, and from our compassion for our fellow man… We have a message of hope and salvation for all who wander lost in darkness and sin… “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3vs16
In Christian virtue and by God’s metrics Max died a success!
Max died a truly wealthy man in the things that really matter!
Max left this life beloved by his wife and Children, with many friends, and well respected as a tradesman.
Max… as Head of his house was able to instill in his children that life has real meaning and purpose.
He taught them that via faith in Christ not sin… nor even death can defeat the Christian.
Max taught his children with certainty that though they may be separated by death for a short while… to carry on and live their lives to the fullest… fulfilling their God-given purpose… and when their time arrives… to face death with peace and hope trusting in God’s grace and goodness.
In death the Christian is received by Christ.
Video (Above) In Death Paul the Apostle meets his loved ones in heaven…. and Jesus!
Reywyn and Family…. May your faith be an unfailing source of strength! Rest in the certainty that you shall be reunited with Max… for this is the promise and great hope of the Gospel!
This is our great hope.
Death can not eternally separate us who believe!
This is not my opinion… its what’s written in God’s Holy bible!
Amen.
What a tragedy it is for any person to go though life thinking it is pointless and meaningless!
What a tragedy to face death without hope!
Especially given the fact that *Atheism is a delusion!* The Bible say’s ‘The Fool hath said in his heart there is no God!”. (Psalm 14vs1)
When the Atheist stands before the judgement seat of the Almighty… then they will realise just how foolish their atheism was… and how their Heart and mind were darkened… but by then their fate is sealed. They chose to enter Eternity unrepentant of their sins… they spurned the sacrifice of Christ.
Max was not a perfect Christian, very much like myself Max had his vices and struggles. We are well aware of our shortcomings. These faults cause us to rely wholly on God’s grace. Thankfully We know we have been made free from the Law… by Christ, and that despite our own failures to live godly lives, we trust in the Cross, and in God’s love, mercy,
‘And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:’
Pil 3vs9
‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:’
Galatians 3 vs 13
5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
Galatians 5
For by grace are ye saved: through faith. and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God.
Not of works lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2vs8,9
It has taken me a month to write this tribute because I feared not doing justice to Max’s memory.
I realise my chief difficulty comes from the fact that though I have many dear Non-Christian friends, I have far less dear Christian ones… and very few indeed as dear to me and as close to me as Max was… and I have suffered a great personal loss with his passing. He was (and indeed still is) one of my closest brothers in Christ…
Rest in Pease my friend…. Until we meet again!
Much Love and respect my Brother!
My one regret is that I allowed far too many years to pass without visiting you.
Sorry Bro.
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.
Dispensationalist.
Authorised King James Bible believer.
P.S I hope Robert Plant knows the only true ‘stairway to heaven’ is the Cross of Jesus Christ!
It’s not for sale… you can’t buy your way into heaven yet don’t be sad!
God’s Gift of salvation is *FREE* to anyone who believes the gospel that God sent Christ to die for our sins, and that he rose again from the dead in victory over sin and death, and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!
